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“The Prophetic Function” by T. Austin Sparks

26 Friday Oct 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Prophecy

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“The Burden of the Valley of Vision”
by T. Austin-Sparks (May, 1945) or another contributor to the magazine

Reading: Isaiah 22:1

The word “burden” here just does mean a load or weight, as much as a man can carry. Thus the Prophets felt what the Lord had shown them to be something that weighed heavily upon them and often overwhelmed them.

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Spirit-led vs. spirit-driven

04 Thursday Jan 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in blogging, Building up the Body of Christ, Christian Living, Church, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, False Spirits, God's guidance, God's Voice, Life in the Kingdom of God, Mind of Christ, Prophecy, Reading and Writing, Spiritual Guidance, Spiritual Sight, Submission to God

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Although I have been posting articles about discerning the spirits for almost 27 months now, I have come to realize that it is often times not possible to explain the difference between these emotions that move our soul habitually and, by contrast, those tender ‘nudges’ or even stronger impressions of restraint in our hearts by which God leads our spirits. Actually, we can only recognize what we have come to know ourselves, right? So, I simply want to tell you today what God’s leading is NOT about.

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Disclosing Deeds of Darkness

17 Sunday Dec 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Born Again, Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Church, Deception, Delusion, Demons, Discerning the Spirits, Disciplining, Exhortation, False Spirits, False Teachers, Family and Friends, Fellowship, Friendship with God, God's guidance, God's Jealousy, Maturity, Mind of Christ, Poetry, Prayer, Preaching, Prophecy, Reblog, Submission to God

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Photo by Sarah Schuberth

To be honest with you, although I was hell-bent on going to bed, quite some time after midnight I felt the strong ‘nudge’ from God to re-publish an older poem of mine, maybe, even two. I do know that this is not my poetry blog and most of my readers prefer reading blog articles instead. Nonetheless, I want to emphasize here, once again, the danger of cherishing any kind of fellowship or friendship, not only with worldly people (which should be clear), but also with those people who are used to meeting on a regular basis where one ought to hear from God. As I have often made clear before, a spirit being who has been birthed from above will, like God, not be predictable in their speaking, writing and doing. We are like the wind if we listen to God’s leading only. So, if we really want to have spiritual relationships first with God and then with one another, too, we do not only need to go away from the world and its pleasures, we should also say ‘Bye bye’ to any regular and obligatory gathering, whatever form it might take (attending church, home church meeting, connecting via internet etc.). The reason for doing so is that we cannot submit to God’s unpredictable leading and to predictable tradition (like preaching or listening to a sermon every Sunday and singing hymns in determined order) at the same time! Either we obey God and cannot be figured by anyone who does not yet have His Spirit, or we submit to another spirit that can be put in a box, a spirit that can be controlled by us. It might be easier and feel better to go on attending meetings with other Christians, but if God does not show up in such a gathering because His Spirit is quenched there, who are we really looking for? 🙄

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How to Break free from Delusion and Deception

12 Sunday Jun 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, Deception, Delusion, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Entering His Rest, Exhortation, False Spirits, Fellowship, My Spiritual Diary, Power of His Resurrection, Prophecy, Resisting the Devil, Speaking the Truth in Love, Submission to God, The Cross

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"For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." (Jer 2:13 ESV) - Photo by Susanne Schuberth

“For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” (Jer 2:13 ESV)
– Photo by Susanne Schuberth

Below you can read a definition of what the word ‘delusion’ basically signifies. T. Austin Sparks explained it this way.

What is delusion? Well, it is to lead from truth into error. It is to mislead the mind or the judgment, to beguile, to lead astray, to cheat, to frustrate, to disappoint, to impose upon; something that is not the truth; and these are days peculiarly marked by that peril. [1]

Actually, delusion and deception are so natural to us that we usually submit to them without knowing about it until God sets us free. On the one hand, there are people who are atheists or agnostics who are deceived because they reject The Truth which is Christ. On the other hand, there are religious people, even Christians, who are deceived because they are content with what they know and can do for God or other religious entities. These believers do not want to grow spiritually because it is too painful for the flesh which must die and make room for Christ in us. Furthermore, there are Christians who have come to know parts of the truth and who had their personal experiences with God and Christ too, however, they habitually eat the whole meat of everything they were taught and do not spit out the bones. Thus it is often times a horrible mix of truth and lies they offer and you need to be cautious to not get captivated by their confusing spiritual spider webs as well.

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Is the Church Age over?

21 Thursday Jan 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Church, Fellowship of His Sufferings, Fellowship with God, God calls, Judgment, Prophecy, Seeking God, Submission to God, Suffering and Joy, The Glory of God

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Destruction of the Church of Reconcilation in Berlin's 'death zone" in January 1985 (Picture credits https://www.rbb-online.de/content/dam/rbb/rbb/Bilder%20Infoportal-------/2014/2014_08/mauer%205.jpg.jpg/size=708x398.jpg)

Destruction of the Church of Reconciliation in Berlin’s ‘death zone’ in January 1985
(Picture credits https://www.rbb-online.de)

My thoughts on this issue were inspired by Michael Clark with whom I had an exchange regarding the time we might live in now, about 2,000 years after Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. Even if we merely look at the circumstances around us, the political situation of so many run-down countries, the increasing number of trouble spots in the world, and the not even remotely comprehensible approaches of “truths” in religion, science, and pseudo-scientific fields (such as esoteric and occult doctrines), we might begin to feel uneasy by the threat of chaos closing in on us.

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Let’s choose the easy yoke of obeying Christ instead of submitting to men

16 Wednesday Dec 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Authority, Building up the Body of Christ, Christian Living, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Exhortation, False Spirits, Following Jesus, God's Voice, Maturity, My Spiritual Diary, Prophecy, Relax and Chill Out, Resisting the Devil, Spiritual Guidance, Submission to God, Wisdom

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Well, God’s leading is never predictable…
Yesterday I had begun to write a longer blog article in which I described one of three dreams I had two days ago, as I felt this morning that God did not want me to publish these things. Maybe later? Only He knows. 🙄 Instead, He began to explain them to me on a deeper level than before, however, since God’s Spirit always shows us the things to come (cf. Jn 16:13), I cannot say when and how these events will finally happen. But lately God often told me one thing in a dream and the very next day, or only two days later, it really happened. Not that He ever shows me literally about whom or about what He is talking to me in pictures. No, without interpretation no dream ever makes sense. The worst thing we can do is trying to interpret dreams from our own (carnal) understanding and reason since God alone knows what He wants to reveal to us. The apostle Paul told us a lot about the difference between the spiritual and the carnal mind, for example here.

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Godly suspicion or… A not so nice but honest blog post

14 Monday Dec 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Born Again, Building up the Body of Christ, Deception, Demons, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, Light and Darkness, Prophecy, Resisting the Devil

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The Evil Lurks at Every Corner (Source Pinterest)

The Evil Lurks at Every Corner
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This is another joint article Michael Clark and I wrote which springs from our experiences with controlling spirits in family, friends and even commenters that have found our blogs as of late. It has been a steep learning curve as to what is the voice of the Lord and what is from the carnal desires of people.


If I (Susanne) was still after gathering as many followers, “likers”, and commenters as possible, I would never write such an open letter as I am now doing. 😉 First of all, as I had begun to moderate comments recently, completely splitting up with commenters and email contacts on the net, trashing comments that seemed to be very nice at first, unfollowing many blogs and unfriending a large percentage of people on Facebook… this was very difficult for me in the beginning. It was like a new habit that did not yet fit nor sit well with me. But of course, it has not become a real “habit” since God follows no hard and fast rules – ever! His leading is as unpredictable as can be. Sometimes it has simply been listening to the Lord’s gentle nudgings right at the outset and at other times I felt the urgent insistence of the Holy Spirit when He warned me about very dangerous spirits that tried to primarily influence me and then those people around me, including my readers.

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