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Susanne Schuberth’s Spiritual Diary (Part 5) – “Beholding Him”

28 Saturday Oct 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, Encouragement, Eros, Fellowship with God, God's Beauty, God's Humor, God's Love, Happiness, Humor, Intimacy with God, joy, Living in the Presence of God, Longing for God, My Spiritual Diary, My Testimony, Prayer, Spiritual Sight, The Fear of God, Walking in the Spirit, Worship in Spirit and Truth

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encouragement, eros, experience, God's love, intimacy, Jesus Christ, joy, knowing God, light, Longing for God, my journal, peace, prayer, the fear of God, the promised land, walking by the spirit

Photo by Susanne Schuberth

I just decided to translate, edit, and publish another part of my spiritual diary in which I described my everyday experiences with God in the Spirit about seven years ago. The following excerpt can be read in direct succession of Susanne Schuberth’s Spiritual Diary (Part 4) – “A Dream Come True…” Below you will find my try of describing these seemingly contradictory experiences of the love and the fear of God, affecting and smiting you at the same time. If that is not confusing to a human being, I don’t know…

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What Selflessness Is Like

12 Tuesday Sep 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Abundant Life, Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Eternal Life, Faith, Fellowship with God, God our Father, God's Love, Happiness, Knowing God, Salvation, Satan, Self-Forgetfulness, Sickness, Spirit vs. Flesh, The Holy Spirit

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Picture credits https://www.happywholehuman.com/help-people-rise/

I just bumped into a blog where someone was praised to the skies for being able to do gymnastics at an advanced age. There is nothing wrong about such a laudation in itself since this and similar things are that which our fallen world can exclusively look at. Whatever is visible, audible, tangible, countable, measurable, yes, everything that is perceptible by our senses will be praised if it promises pleasure to people. As I skimmed through the comments section of this blog post, the longest response there caught my eye. The commenter, of course, was still older than the aforementioned person who would receive rave reviews, and he, outrageously, won this and that competition at an even higher age. Dear reader, it was almost impossible for me to finish reading their self-praise by which I felt greatly repelled. :-/ What about those people who cannot behave as they would want? What about those who are sick and cannot move their bodies any longer as they would love to? I doubt you will find any writing on the internet where these people are praised… BUT…

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God’s humorous guidance

08 Sunday Jan 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Abundant Life, Authority, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Exhortation, Fellowship with God, God's guidance, God's Humor, God's Love, God's Voice, Happiness, Hope, Humor, Intimacy with God, Knowing God, My Spiritual Diary, Resurrection Life, Suffering and Joy, The Fear of God, Trusting God

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What a nice surprise... (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

What a nice surprise…
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Well, basically, I had a day full of back pains and toothaches, but at the end of that day I dare say, “It was a pretty good day, though…” Originally I wanted to go to bed earlier than usual and I told my family about it one hour ago. As I thought about what to do in the following half hour before going to bed, I would ask God if He had any ideas or what HE wanted to do. At first I reflected on reading a bit… or on making a Sudoku puzzle… or not… however, I began with tidying up our flat as Jesus answered my question. “I want to spend time with you!” Wow! That came across pretty forcefully, even passionately. I immediately knew our Lord had spoken and my heart began to flutter in joyful anticipation.

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Glorifying God Goes with Obeying God’s Gentle Guidance

04 Saturday Jun 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Christ in us, Church, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Encouragement, Exhortation, God's guidance, God's Love, Happiness, Hope, Humility, joy, Light and Darkness, New Self, Obedience, Old Self, Righteousness, The Fear of God

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The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. (Songs 2:12 ESV) Photo by Susanne Schuberth

The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. (Songs 2:12 ESV)
Photo by Susanne Schuberth

Reading the following verses, it appears to me that there are some requirements that must be met by us before we can be sure that it is always God who leads us. King David shared his own experiences with us as he said,

He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies. For your name’s sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great. Who is the man who fears the Lord? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose. His soul shall abide in well-being, and his offspring shall inherit the land. The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant. (Ps 25:9-14)

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How to Detect False Spirits – The Spirit of False Unity and Fake Love

19 Tuesday Jan 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Agape, Building up the Body of Christ, Christ in us, Church, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Ecumenism, Exhortation, False Spirits, God's Love, Happiness, Holy Spirit, Intimacy with God, Knowing God, Obedience, Truth in Love

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Picture source http://www.datekoupdatekar.com/blog/fake-world-fake-people

Picture source http://www.datekoupdatekar.com/blog/fake-world-fake-people

God knows how often since October last year I asked Him when this series about discerning the spirits finally would be over. However, I never got a direct response from Him. Instead, He taught me consistently new lessons about dangerous spirits that look so innocent and “holy” on the outside. If this kind of teaching was only a “mind thing”, that would be no problem at all. But God always lets me FEEL those evil spirits, meanwhile even before I meet them. Brothers and sisters, that is not fun!! Yet I believe it must be important to God that we learn to merely listen to His voice and to keep ignoring those other seducing spirits that approach us every day.

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Instead of Sanctification: The crossless gospel spirit

10 Thursday Dec 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Deception, Delusion, Discerning the Spirits, Doctrine, Exhortation, False Spirits, Happiness, Healing, Justification, Living in the Presence of God, New Self, Old Self, Resisting the Devil, Salvation, Sanctification, Spiritual Guidance, The Fear of God, The Gospel

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Every gospel that focuses on man instead of focusing on Christ is anti-Christian by nature. (Picture taken from https://thepropheticnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/antichrist.jpg)

Every gospel that focuses on man instead of focusing on Christ is anti-Christian by nature.
(Picture taken from https://thepropheticnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/antichrist.jpg)

I am sure there are more versions of that kind of gospel today and I presume there will pop up more and more of them in these last confusing days where Satan appears as an angel of light. However, I want to merely focus on two different manifestations of the crossless gospel I have met particularly on the internet since I began to write online comments in English on December 1, 2011. I would like to refer to these two confusing sub-categories as Spiritless Salvation of the Sinner and Spiritual Self-Salvation.

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Becoming Like Little Children

19 Saturday Sep 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Set Free, Care, Dreams, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Entering the Promised Land, Faith, Fellowship with God, God's Love, Happiness, Healing, Hope, My Spiritual Diary, Poetry, Relax and Chill Out, Trusting God

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Moving on to pastures new... (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Moving on to pastures new…
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Imagine God asked you to go on vacation with Him. Not next year, not tomorrow, no, right now. You would not know where you’d go to, how it looked like, and what might happen to you, however, you could be sure that God would care for everything you might ever need and that He would give you perfect peace 24/7 if you trust in Him (Is 26:3). Furthermore, God told you that you could stay there with Him, even forever. “Pipe dreams,” one might say, “Interesting,” might add another. These two responses certainly came from adults who not only lost their illusions, which might be a good thing, but maybe, they also lost their hope and dreams. Now imagine God asked a little child this very same question. How would he or she react? I think we know the answer…

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The Pursuit of Happiness

21 Tuesday Jul 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Born Again, Dying to Self, Encouragement, Exhortation, Fellowship of His Sufferings, Happiness, Living in the Presence of God, New Self, Old Self, Suffering and Joy, The Fear of the Lord

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Seeing the Son in the Sun ;-)  (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Seeing the Son in the Sun 🙂
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

I never met anyone who wanted to be sad, sick, and sorrowful. We as human beings might be able to adjust ourselves to a certain kind of pain at times, but no one longs to be unhappy continuously. No, we all want to enjoy our life! Well, but that is exactly our problem since God created us to be happy eternally in His presence, yet we have fallen short of obeying Him and thus have had to face several consequences of sin, one of which is temporal unhappiness. We know that it was Jesus’ atonement and God’s grace that opened the way back into His presence through our Lord, who has become our personal way to an abundant spiritual life. But knowing about it and living to see it are two very different animals. 😉

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