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The Importance of the Word of God

17 Friday Apr 2020

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Born Again, Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, God's guidance, Growing in Christ, Jesus Christ, My Spiritual Diary, Obedience, Reading and Writing, Repentance, Satan, Temptation, The Bible, The Holy Spirit, The Word of God, Theology, Walking in the Spirit, Words of (eternal) Life

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I want to start with a quote from Martin Luther that expressed his view of the Bible he would translate from Greek into the German language. He said,

You can’t joke with God’s Word. If you cannot understand this, take off your hat in front of it. It’s not a joke, it’s serious and wants to be honored.

If you read my blog regularly, you might know that I am not someone who recommends to regularly study the Bible according to an unalterable time schedule. I could never suggest this as I feel that Spirit-led people might read the Bible as God nudges them to do so. However, I remember several times in my life when I somehow devoured the whole Bible for several months. You might know that there are times when God convicts us and calls us to turn from our old ways where we ignored His Word (repentance is just another word for finally turning to the Lord). When He in His grace forgave us and we sense His love, joy, and peace after having been restored to God, usually a hunger for His Word (the Bible) and for the presence of the Lord will follow, too, as we hunger and thirst for THE LIFE only He can give. Jesus told us,

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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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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 Can We Know The Truth?

12 Thursday Dec 2019

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Baptism in the Holy Spirit, blogging, Building up the Body of Christ, Christ in us, Church, Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, False Spirits, False Teachers, Following Jesus, God's guidance, My Spiritual Diary, Seeking the Truth, Spiritual Leadership, The Anointing, The Truth, Walking in the Spirit

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Recently I found a well-written article on how God leads us on the internet. A former famous pastor had published this entry some years ago. I won’t tell you his name because what he shared would not be basically wrong, however, it was not the whole truth. In fact, it is so easy to be misled by someone who has a broad scholarly biblical knowledge. Scholars might often utter a bunch of theoretical truth, yet do they know THE TRUTH? Do they know THE ONE who indwells their hearts and teaches them moment by moment on what to do and what to omit, on when to speak up and when to remain silent? It is not their fault if they do not know that they do not know the living God (yet), but if you and I seek the truth, we should not submit to their “leading”.

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Getting Old Ain’t for Sissies…. BUT GOD

06 Sunday Oct 2019

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Charity, Christian Living, Dying to Self, Encouragement, Eternal Life, Faith, family, Family and Friends, Following Jesus, God's guidance, God's Love, Growing in Christ, Hope, my parents, My Spiritual Diary, My Testimony

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My parents in the 1970s

I know it’s been a while since I published the last blog article (five months, oh well). Even just yesterday I was wondering whether I would be done with writing publicly as I have felt NO inclination to jot down my experiences with God for a rather long time. No time and no interest in blogging at all! Furthermore, I have experienced a very dry spiritual “blah time”. You know, these times when everything seems to be so “normal”, so arduous and boring that you might wonder whether you had known God at all.  🙄

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Drawn toward the Light

06 Wednesday Feb 2019

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Fellowship, Fellowship with God, Following Jesus, God calls, God's Love, illumination, Inspiration, Light and Darkness, My Spiritual Diary, Prayer, Spiritual Life, Walking in the Light

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After many gray days lately, last week the sun came out for a short time again. Swimming under an almost clear blue sky in my favorite outdoor pool, I suddenly got aware of the fact that all human beings, even most animals and plants are drawn toward the visible light. These few sunrays made the water sparkle and glitter both on the surface and underneath. Due to the warm temperature inside (30° C, i.e., 86° F) the pool soon turned into a vapor bath. As the cold Eastern winds blew stronger, playing a funny game with these continually shaping clouds of steam, my heart was rejoicing over the ingenuity of our Creator. It was really an amazing spectacle!  🙂

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… but you are dead

12 Saturday Jan 2019

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Christian movements, Christianity, Church, Cults, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, False Happiness, False Spirits, Following Jesus, Holy Spirit, Life and Death, Ministry, My Spiritual Diary, My Testimony, Revival, Satan, Sects, Seeking the Truth, The World

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Just lately I have been preoccupied with a specific religious orientation of Christianity. Not that I had chosen to focus once again on what I had known myself a quarter of a century ago. However, a few people I have known for years were more and more drawn into this kind of charismatic church. It is a modern branch of Christendom that more often than not appeals to younger people who do not like to sit in a pew without moving their body for a long time. If you enter such a church, you will surely meet a group of kind people who extend a warm welcome to you (the welcome team). There is also a variety of modern music presented by what is called the worship team. The bigger the church, the more qualified musicians you will find there. They and the majority of the church members who serve in any kind of ministry don’t work for money, no. Whether it is the welcome team, the kitchen team, the worship team, the child care team, whatever. All these people work for charity’s sake. But this does not apply to the pastor and the whole leadership; they usually live from what the congregation offers up. You know, from tithes and donations…

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Called to Live A Holy Life

05 Saturday Jan 2019

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in a holy life, Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, Christian Living, Christianity, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, False Teachers, Fellowship with God, Following Jesus, God calls, God's guidance, Intimacy with God, Ministry, My Spiritual Diary, peace, Preaching, Spirit vs. Flesh, The Bible

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Happy New Year to every reader of my blog!  🙂 This post should have been published in December already, but as I was very busy and have been sick for one week, I thought I could offer it to you belatedly although these festive pictures might strike you as odd now.  😉 I just added the quote in the beginning and here we go. T. Austin Sparks put it so properly as he said,

The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control.

I sometimes wonder whether we as Christians know that we are called to live a holy life, a life that is evidently different from what this world calls ‘life’. Not that I am thinking here of ‘holy’ Christians who preach the law while they tend to live licentiousness privately sooner or later. Such preachers are often characterized by a very offensive style of preaching. They only ‘feel good’ if they were able to misuse their self-assumed authority by beating the hell out of their audience (speaking spiritually here). If those who were preached to bow their heads eventually as they find themselves completely discouraged, only then such preachers feel better than others. This is a carnal way to preach the gospel, indeed, as it only serves to boost the sermonizer’s self.

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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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Under A Foreign Yoke

14 Friday Sep 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Christian Living, Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, False Spirits, God's Provision, Light and Darkness, My Spiritual Diary, Obedience, Prayer, Resisting the Devil, silence, sin, Spirit vs. Flesh, Submission to God, Waiting on God

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Have you ever felt an increasing uneasiness as you pondered on the possibility to cave in to somebody’s pleading because you knew in your heart it would be the wrong thing to do? I do not know whether this is only a people pleaser problem, but I assume I am not the only one who is struggling with these thoughts and temptations.

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