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My Testimony – Part 2

10 Tuesday Mar 2020

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Set Free, Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, False Teachers, God's Love, Jesus Christ, joy, light, Love, My Spiritual Diary, My Testimony, peace, Prayer, Relax and Chill Out

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It was not my intention to write on the details about how I once came to Christ, but it somehow happened as I kept writing this blog post (scroll down if you want to skip the rest). So that’s why I chose this title.  😉

My purpose of writing today was showing you how easy it can be to get back under the law once we have been freed from it. I am not talking about Old Testament Law here. Instead, I want to describe my latest experiences on the internet, and then I am going to share another part of my spiritual journey with you. Btw, you can find the first part of my testimony here. Please note: I apologize to you for the bad quality of these old, darkened pictures I attached.  The camera my husband Paul used back then in 1995 did not have the same quality as the one he uses nowadays.

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True Gratefulness and Real Strength

28 Thursday Dec 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Church, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Exhortation, False Spirits, Following Jesus, God's Voice, Gratefulness, Knowing God, Love, Maturity, Mind of Christ, Old Self, Resisting the Devil, Submission to God

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Maybe you, like me, were inclined to believe that we are to express thankfulness toward God whenever something good, in our view, has happened to us. That is not wrong an attitude in itself, however, where is our gratitude when God allows bad things in our sight again (!), happen to us as well?  🤔

I have come to know several people over the years who usually express thankfulness as they discern a glass half-full and not half-empty. Nonetheless, it is not necessary to be a Christian to be able to do so. It is a matter of personality alone that decides whether we have to do with an optimist or with a pessimist. Indeed, it is nothing but innate thinking and behavior of our old nature that makes people appear as if they were Christians. Bold words, huh? 🙄 If you happen to read my blog more often, you might presume that I primarily point to the social gospel type of Christian here, people who work hard for the Lord in their own and other people’s view. However, they have never come to know Jesus on a personal and intimate level themselves. All they know about God was what they read and heard and saw other ‘Christians’ do. Our Lord will make it clear one day what the difference between those who were known and famous Christians in this world and those who were unknown nobodies, yet being known by God, will be.

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Waiting on God…

08 Thursday Dec 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Christian Mystics, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Following Jesus, God's guidance, God's Love, Holy Spirit, Humor, Intercession, Living in the Presence of God, Love, My Spiritual Diary, Relax and Chill Out, Satan, Spirit vs. Flesh, The World, Walking in the Spirit

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View from Zirndorf's Tower 'Alte Veste'/Bavaria (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

View from Zirndorf’s Tower ‘Alte Veste’/Bavaria
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

This morning as I was searching for a quote from Corrie ten Boom which I had found on my German daily kitchen calendar, I discovered many others in the English language on the internet. However, the one I was looking for was not among them.  😉 In this particular quote Corrie said it so well, “You won’t lose time if you wait on God.” Isn’t it true that our old nature wants to see things been done, if possible all at once… so that we can rest AFTERWARDS? Has it ever occurred to you that God might have forgotten about your concerns since you prayed and prayed… but nothing seemed to have happened?

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What is the Fear of God?

18 Friday Mar 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Abundant Life, Authority, Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, Following Jesus, Freedom, God's Love, joy, Judgment, Love, Maturity, Obedience, peace, The Fear of God, The Fear of the Lord

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"If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full." (Jn 15:10-11 ESV) (Picture credits http://deeperwaters.us/the-joy-of-obedience/)

“If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.” (Jn 15:10-11 ESV) – Picture credits http://deeperwaters.us/the-joy-of-obedience/

Although this article springs from my own experiences with the fear of God, I did not describe here how it really feels to be struck all of a sudden by this special spirit of Him who rules the universe. If you like to read more about that, though, click here. In this entry you will rather find a definition by T. Austin Sparks’ of the fear of the Lord and some implications of what it means to truly belong to God’s people. Contrasting the evil of fear imposed on us by Satan in order to torment and paralyze us, TAS wrote regarding the fear of God,

But this fear is a holy fear. Let no one think for a moment that this fear of the Lord is death, bondage, stultification and repression. Not at all. Wherever you find this fear of the Lord you find joy, love, peace and liberty. People are not afraid of the Lord. But they are careful not to grieve the Lord. They do not take liberties with the Lord. They do not think of spiritual liberty as spiritual licence. They do not cast off restraint, they do not ride rough-shod over all sacred things, calling it liberty. No, there is holy fear which restrains and in restraining keeps things pure and keeps things clear and makes a straight way for the Lord. The true fear of the Lord is not dread. It is a very blessed and precious thing.

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Speaking the Truth IN Love

01 Tuesday Mar 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Agape, Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, God's Love, Intimacy with God, Judgment, Knowing God, Love, Resisting the Devil, Self-Righteousness, Speaking the Truth in Love, Spirit vs. Flesh, Spiritual Guidance, The Fruit of the Spirit

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LOVE - the more excellent way (Picture credits https://denigustafson.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/0522-joh013035engkjv08000480-000.jpg)

LOVE – the more excellent way
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As these two caps in my headline might already point to, speaking the truth in love is not something we can do on our own. Actually, we must be in love with our Creator through Jesus Christ, so that we can behave toward all other human beings as we should. Loving them unconditionally does not mean that we cave in if we disagree with them. No, if God wants us to take a stand, we should do it – always. However, if we are not IN love with God, what will happen is most probably something that some of us already did: they tried to speak the truth in love by telling others what they believed, and perhaps it was really the truth (!), but they did not wait on the Lord to nudge them to do so and thus it got all harsh and judgmental. They might have felt that there was something wrong about it and thus they added some pleasantry in order to show that they really loved the other person. Well, I believe that is not the way God intended it to be.

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“What is Christianity about?” by Michael and Susanne

10 Saturday Oct 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Agape, Christian Living, Christianity, Dying to Self, Following Jesus, God's Love, Individuality, Justice, Love, Maturity, Wisdom

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He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8 NASB) – Photo by Susanne Schuberth

Good grief, that is a strange question, don’t you think?
Okay, okay, if someone said Christianity was all about Christ, then we would wholeheartedly agree and could stop writing at this point. Nonetheless, that was not what we wanted to talk about here. Instead, we have often wondered whether we as Christians are more known for what we stand against than for what we stand for.

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Our True Individuality

27 Sunday Sep 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Christ in us, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Encouragement, Freedom, God's Love, Individuality, Love, New Self, Old Self, Power of His Resurrection, Relax and Chill Out, The Cross

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If some believers are tempted to believe that they could lose their individuality when they have finally died to self with Christ on their own (spiritual) crosses, then I hope I can offer some comfort here since nothing could be further from the truth. Although the apostle Paul told us in his letter to the Galatians,          “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me,” (Gal 2:20 ESV) he had another idea in mind. Let’s read what Alexander MacLaren wrote in his Bible Commentary about this verse.

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There are mysteries we can’t read about in the Bible

12 Saturday Sep 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Agape, Christ in us, God's Love, Holy Spirit, Hope, Intimacy with God, Knowing God, Love, Marriage, Mysteries, The Bible, Worship in Spirit and Truth

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When His Light Shines Forth... (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

When His Light Shines Forth…
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

JESUS:
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.” (Jn 16:12-13 ESV)

PAUL:
“But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.” (1 2:7-10 ESV)

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Who Needs Love? by Michael Clark and Susanne Schuberth

30 Thursday Jul 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Encouragement, Exhortation, God's Love, Holy Spirit, Hope, Knowing God, Love, Preaching, Psychology, Spiritual Guidance, Wisdom

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GOD IS LOVE (Source: www.anaheller.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/58860011.jpg

GOD IS LOVE
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It is not the loveable person that needs to be loved. It is the unlovable person, the clamoring child, the rebellious adult, the nasty friend, the raging parent, in a nutshell, it is the SINNER that needs to be healed. If we react to misbehavior by speaking mere words only, they might be able to bring across what we mean, but without love they will never touch the heart of someone who has gone wild. Well, “words” alone are based on knowledge… what we think we know or what we feel. But if our words are not tempered with grace, they can wound and kill. For it is written,

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention. (Proverbs 15:18 RSVA)

Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God. (James 1:19-20 RSVA)

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Knowing God…

24 Tuesday Mar 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Agape, Christian Mystics, Ecstasy, Encouragement, Eros, Fellowship with God, God's Love, Intimacy with God, Knowing God, Life in the Kingdom of God, Love, Resurrection Life, Spiritual Life, Walking in the Spirit

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Knowing God… and Being Known by Him
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Instead of boring you to death with a new article written right from my blank mind, 😉 I decided to copy and paste two daily devotionals from Oswald Chambers that really hit home as for the consequences of being intimate with God. We will see and feel it in our own lives, and others will too, when all our thinking and doing eventually spring from being one with God as we abide in His love. If we are really as intimate with Jesus as Jesus was with His Father, the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22-23) cannot be ignored, neither by us nor by anyone else, for it is written,

“A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.” (Mt 7:18-20 ESV)

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