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The Common Misconception of Christian Authority

03 Wednesday Mar 2021

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Authority, Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Deception, Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, False Spirits, False Teachers, God's guidance, God's Love, God's Voice, God's Word, Obedience, Seeking the Truth, Spiritual Guidance, Submission to God, Temptation, Testimony, The Bible, the devil, The Word of God, Walking in the Spirit

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Have you ever heard about Christians having been given a special kind of authority on the grounds of calling themselves a Christian? You know this kind of supernatural ‘power’ that is to enable us to share our testimony wherever and whenever or to “go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  and teaching them to obey everything” (Mt 28:19-20 NIV) that Jesus has said? Others might have been taught that as soon as the devil attacks us, we should put on the whole armor of God (Eph 6:11-18) so that we can resist him. Hmm…  🙄 If you ever tried this and that and you failed, I am afraid you were not the only one. Me too!  🙂 In fact, I thank God for letting us know that simply following the written word is not necessarily walking in the Spirit of truth also.

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Coronavirus – A Call For Repentance

12 Sunday Apr 2020

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, coronavirus, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, God's Love, God's Voice, God's wrath, Life and Death, Repentance, Submission to God, wilderness, Wisdom

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This won’t be a long article as I just wanted to offer you a longer part from Scripture in which we see that God, though He is loving, never ignores ongoing sin in our lives. Whether we call it discipline or chastening, at times God’s hand might feel like punishing us. In such a case it is good to surrender all our negative feelings, our anger, our fears and our doubts to Him. There is no need to try to hide anything before God since He who knows everything knows our hearts also. Below you can read God’s call for repentance.

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Do Not Fear Anymore

07 Tuesday Jan 2020

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Set Free, Dependence on God, Encouragement, Faith, Fear of Death, God's guidance, God's Provision, God's Voice, joy, My Spiritual Diary, My Testimony, pain, peace, Prayer, Resurrection Life

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In December last year, less than one month ago, God made me emphatically aware of a certain Scripture. Sometimes I read the Scriptures on my daily Catholic kitchen calendar and I am bored. Sometimes they speak to me and I keep them, however, very rarely I sense that God is ‘shouting at me’ through them. The latter happened as I read the following verse below.

“The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil.” (Zeph 3:15 ESV)

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How God Opens Man’s Ears to Hear HIS Voice

04 Thursday Apr 2019

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Death, Discerning the Spirits, Endurance, Exhortation, Fellowship of His Sufferings, Following Jesus, God's Voice, God's wrath, pain, peace, Prayer, Salvation, suffering, Wisdom

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Instead of writing a long blog post of my own, I offer you two biblical excerpts from Elihu’s speeches to Job after Job’s ignorant friends had tried to share their human wisdom with him who would suffer a lot. Sometimes we cannot understand why God lets us suffer without telling us WHY and HOW LONG it might take. But there must be a reason why suffering is necessary in our lives, even if we cannot see the reason right now. Here is wisdom that Elihu, inspired by the Holy Spirit, suggested to Job on (1) ‘How does God make us hear Him?’ and on (2) ‘Why does He not answer us as we expect Him to do?’

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Panic is Satanic

28 Wednesday Nov 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Christian Living, Deception, Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, False Spirits, God's Voice, My Spiritual Diary, Seeking God, Trusting God

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The other day as I was half awake in the morning, still dwelling on some thoughts that could have turned into real worries sooner or later, I suddenly heard a voice that emphatically told me, “Panic is satanic!” Although I knew it was the Holy Spirit speaking to me, I wondered why His voice was not as still and subtle as it often is when God nudges me tenderly to open my ears toward Him. It dawned on me that God wanted to teach me something. Therefore, I would not be that surprised later that day as a black truck passed me by when I was on a prayer walk in the afternoon. On this truck you could read a big-lettered yellow label that said, “Don’t panic!” Aha!  🙂

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“Deceived by religiousness” by T. Austin Sparks

23 Tuesday Oct 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Church, Deception, Delusion, Discerning the Spirits, Fellowship, Fellowship with God, God's Voice, Growing in Christ, Resisting the Devil

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Just reading yesterday’s daily devotional by T. Austin Sparks, the introducing Bible verse somehow hit me. It says,

“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” (Rev 18:4 KJV)

I read the related article (partly, at least) and then went back to a chapter before which deals with “The Cross and Deception”. Even yesterday I had a talk with one woman who is still church bound, a fact that turns out to be a burden for her at times, and another woman who seems to love Jesus, too, yet who is still seeking for a place or a group where she feels spiritually at home. The only thing I can do for these two women is to pray that God gives them a hideaway where they cannot only rest before Him, but together with fellow believers IN Him also since it is so important that we “[b]ear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” (Gal 6:2 KJV). On our own, it is so much harder to keep walking uprightly before God, isn’t it? So, here is TAS with his apposite deliberations on the dangers of a mere outward religious life.

Deceived by religiousness. What more can be expected than the recognition of the fact of God and the giving to God of reverence, acknowledgment, and recognition: of taking active interest in things which relate to God, attending religious services, and being very busy in religious activities and interests, and finding your chief interest in religious things and the religious realm? What more can be expected? What is the matter with that? Be patient, bear with me if I say with very great emphasis: that may be one colossal delusion. So often that very thing obscures one fundamental thing, a true and living relationship with God. “Ye must be born again”, and religion very often obscures that issue. Oh, religion is no argument for salvation. Religion can be found in the darkest places of the earth. Universally there is religion; depraved and very low in many places, but universally there is the consciousness of standing in relationship to some supreme object of worship, demanding worship; and then men’s minds or imaginations get to work to give some kind of expression to that consciousness, of that supreme object of worship, and the imagination produces that sometimes out of a tree, a stone, or in the heavenly bodies; somehow it is expressed, but it is the thing that is there, behind all the forms of expression which is universal. All the highly civilised forms of that brought into the realm of Christendom are only the same thing developed. It does not say that Christendom’s more intelligent, civilised, educated interpretation of God, even though it gets its ideas from the Bible, is salvation. It may be a mighty delusion and very often is.

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Through Whom Does God speak Today?

14 Sunday Oct 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Church, Deception, Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, Eternal Life, Exhortation, Following Jesus, God's Voice, God's wrath, Knowing God, Obedience, The Cross

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Like me you might know a few gracious people with whom it is always easy to have dealings with. At other times, we might be confronted with some rude persons who unexpectedly utter words of truth.  🙄 Nonetheless, neither the gracious nor the veracious person must necessarily be a Christian. There are pleasant-natured people who are able to enjoy life and to be thankful for that, too. However, if you start to wonder whom they might owe their blessings in life, they remain silent or they evade the issue. Maybe, they tell you they were thankful toward life itself, toward Mother Nature, toward the universe or they believe in angels, instead.

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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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The Secret Fundament of Being Useful for God

23 Friday Mar 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Set Free, Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Encouragement, Fellowship with God, God calls, God's Love, God's Voice, Growing in Christ, Holy Spirit, Humility, Living in the Presence of God, Prayer, Revelation, Self-knowledge, Sitting at His Feet, Spirit vs. Flesh, Submission to God, The Cross, Waiting on God, wilderness

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Roger T. Forster, whose article “Making History with God” I found in T. Austin Sparks’ library online, would write,

“God is writing history, but He is drawing men into fellowship with Himself as He does so, making them the occasion for a chapter in His book of the story of humanity. There is a chapter for Noah, a chapter for Abraham, a chapter for Moses and many others, and a chapter for you and me. He calls us to share in His great declaration, ‘I am bringing to pass what I am bringing to pass’, encouraging us to be like Moses, a hole in the ground filled with His living water, or a common bush, aflame with the unquenchable fire of His love, so that He can use us in His great movement of liberation.”

https://www.austin-sparks.net/mags/ttm01-5.html

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What Really Counts in Life

20 Tuesday Mar 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Christian Living, Death, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, God's Grace, God's guidance, God's Love, God's Voice, Obedience, Ordinary Life, Reading and Writing, rest, Seeking God, Seeking the Truth, Spirit vs. Flesh, The Holy Spirit, The Kingdom of God, The World, Vanity, Waiting on God, Wisdom

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If someone nurtures soaring hopes and plans, we might tell them to stay more grounded or earthed instead. But have you ever heard someone suggest to you to get more ‘heavened’? 🙄 If you, like me, often times wonder about the seeming hopelessness of our existence as we cannot sense the presence of God while (sometimes ridiculous) everyday troubles keep preying on our minds, you might have also observed non-Christians who can seemingly live their lives confronted with less problems and difficulties than we can. Yet, in the long run, that is not the truth. The Book of Ecclesiastes tells us some sobering facts.

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