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Misconceptions of God

03 Thursday Dec 2020

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Set Free, Building up the Body of Christ, Church, Cults, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Exhortation, Faith, False Spirits, God's Grace, God's Love, God's Word, Holiness, Obedience, Prayer, Righteousness, Seeking God, Seeking the Truth, sin, The Bible, The Fear of God

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More than 20 years ago after having left the Christian cult we were in, I felt that God was not half as judgmental as it had been suggested there in that missionary congregation. My own experiences with God and Jesus made me think that HE was quite the opposite of what I had heard back then. It would seem to me that God’s grace revealed in Christ did not judge anyone at all. From hence, for quite some time I was convinced that God was love, and only love. However, what about all this evil in the world and what about evil people? No judgment? No condemnation? Only forgiveness for everyone without any consequences? So many questions which I, sooner or later, could not ignore any longer…

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Good works pleasing to God

10 Wednesday Apr 2019

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Church, conscience, Discerning the Spirits, enlightened, Faith, Following Jesus, good works, grace, joy, sin

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Today I want to offer you an excerpt from a long treatise on REALLY good works by Martin Luther (not King). Sometimes we might have preconceptions and wrong ideas about how BIG good works must be or rather ‘look like’. However, our good works can be pretty small. They might even take place without anyone noticing them… but God. Now here is the part I chose of Martin Luther’s treatise (emphasis in bold letters has been added by me). If you want to read more, follow the link beneath the excerpt.

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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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“Hath God really said…? “

03 Saturday Feb 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Carnality, clarity, confusion, Deception, Delusion, Discerning the Spirits, Divorce, Exhortation, Faith, False Happiness, Family and Friends, Following Jesus, God's guidance, God's Voice, My Spiritual Diary, Obedience, peace, Prayer, Resisting the Devil, Satan, sin, Spirit vs. Flesh, Submission to God, Temptation, The Fall

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Maybe, you are familiar with what has been going on in me lately. Imagine, after careful consideration aka prayer, you finally do something of which you are convinced that it must be God’s will for your life. I am not thinking of big things here, only of some small obedience of ours. As long as you are indecisive, you might feel weak, even confused. But as soon as you decide to give in to God’s tender ‘nudgings’, you sense some supernatural strength coming back to you. As you follow His leading and do what was needed, eventually, His peace surrounds you to show you His pleasure. How wonderful an experience! 😊 But then…

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Everyone can hear the Voice of God

29 Monday Jan 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Dreams, Encouragement, Forgiveness, God's Love, God's Voice, Heaven and Hell, Life and Death, Light and Darkness, My Spiritual Diary, pain, Prayer, Repentance, Salvation, Seeing God, Sickness, sin, Suffering and Joy, visions

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As my closer walk with God through Jesus in 1995 had just begun, one of the first books He nudged me to read was the Book of Job, again and again. It was not ‘fun’ to read but important for me to know beforehand about these years of suffering and pain that were still ahead of me back then. I decided to copy and paste a longer Scripture that deals with the WHY and HOW God speaks to ALL people in this world through dreams, visions, and more often than not through adverse circumstances. To Job who would think he was a righteous man Elihu said,

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False Christ-Centeredness

11 Thursday Jan 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, blogging, Building up the Body of Christ, Christian Living, Christianity, Church, Communion, confusion, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, False Spirits, Fellowship with God, Life and Death, Mind of Christ, My Spiritual Diary, Reading and Writing, sacraments, Seeking God, Seeking the Truth, sin, Submission to God, Theology

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Some of you might wonder why I keep publishing about the dangers of clinging to the wrong spirits. However, I believe it is important to get rid of all negative influences that might be able to pull us away from a personal and intimate relationship with Christ risen. If we want to feed on Christ by seeking His presence daily, we should stay away from reading books, blogs, or the like that pollute our minds with an abundance of theological theories. Even though we might always find some truth in theological writings, a true Christian writer can solely be someone who knows God and is known by Him also. Actually, don’t we want to be introduced to all the truth instead of to some starters only? Dear reader, what this world thinks is recommendable is usually detestable in God’s eyes. The same applies to the religious world of Christianity where the average Christian has been raised to look up to charismatic high-profile figures. The book market is flooded with a diversity of Christian books that are not always helpful to lead us into the truth as it is revealed in Christ alone. Let me give you an example here the Lord has just made me aware of.

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Preaching the Cross without letting it kill us or… on Plagiarism, once again

21 Tuesday Mar 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Christian Living, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Maturity, Mind of Christ, Obedience, Plagiarism, Reading and Writing, Resisting the Devil, Satan, sin, Spirit vs. Flesh, Temptation, The Cross

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Walking in the Light as He is in the Light…
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

It was not my intention to write a new blog post today and I hoped this would turn out a short one, but I thought I should share my recent experiences on the internet with you. In fact, I was simply searching for ANY other blog that deals with the cross of Christ on a personal basis. I truly wondered whether there might be a handful of such blogs nowadays. Here’s what I found out.

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Knowing God’s heart… intimately

29 Thursday Dec 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, adultery, Being Born Again, Building up the Body of Christ, Death, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Eternal Life, God's Love, Gospels, Growing in Christ, Homosexuality, intimacy, Knowing God, Life in the Kingdom of God, My Spiritual Diary, Prayer, Salvation, sin

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Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (Jn 3:3 ESV) -  Photo by Susanne Schuberth

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (Jn 3:3 ESV) –
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It is not for me easy to define intimacy, even more difficult regarding my relationship with God. Maybe, an example might help here. Yesterday morning as I was thinking about someone who died four days ago, I closed my eyes and looked at Jesus in my spirit. I recall that I did not say anything, neither loudly nor silently in my mind, but my question was heard by Him, nonetheless. This person who died was famous and some might know that I write about British pop star George Michael who died at the age of 53. I did not know that much about him, I only remember some of his songs that touched me in a certain way, especially ‘Last Christmas’ where he sang,

“Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I’ll give it to someone special…”

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LOVE is YOU

01 Thursday Sep 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Encouragement, Fellowship, Fellowship with God, God's Love, Holiness, Intimacy with God, Power of His Resurrection, Resisting the Devil, Sanctification, Satan, sin, The Dark Night of the Soul, The Dark Night of the Spirit, The Kingdom of God

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After sunrise in the Public Pool (Fürth/Scherbsgraben) Photo by Susanne Schuberth

After sunrise in the Public Pool (Fürth/Scherbsgraben)
Photo by Susanne Schuberth

After a pretty long and dry period without much inspiration, here is another joint article by Michael Clark and me.

Satan is a liar. And he is very good at that. He tells us to worry about tomorrow because God would not care or provide. Therefore, we fear the future although we might know there are Scriptures which promise the opposite of what the devil keeps whispering into our ears. If we are tempted to sin, our enemy embellishes the act of sinning and plays the consequences down by offering us only good feelings that should make us fall asleep spiritually. And what is worst, Satan tries to convince us that God could NEVER give us what he, Satan, offers. Instead, he presents God as a someone who would take everything from us which would, if we listened to the devil, make our life worthwhile (I am mainly referring to sin here). Although we might spell out the appropriate Bible verses to the angel of light, he will only laugh at us, knowing that our natural heart is terribly wicked and inclined to commit every sin imaginable if the right conditions were presented to us.

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Seven ways to discern truth from error by A.W. Tozer

05 Thursday May 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in clarity, confusion, Deception, Delusion, Discerning the Spirits, Mysticism, Satan, Seeking the Truth, sin, The Bible, The World

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"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few." (Mt 7:13-14 ESV) Photo by Susanne Schuberth

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” (Mt 7:13-14 ESV)
Photo by Susanne Schuberth

If we are insecure about how to discern the spirits in certain cases, A.W. Tozer offers a very helpful method to try any new experience, doctrine, or religious movement regarding their effects on our relationship with (1) God, (2) Jesus Christ, (3) the Bible, (4) our (old) self, (5) other believers who are indwelt by Christ’s Spirit, (6) the world and its desires, and as to (7) sin. It is a quite long article of which I only pasted some excerpts on here although the text is pretty long, still. If you want to read more, please, follow the link below. It is well worth reading, I believe. I also think we can use this method in order to judge the origin of our thoughts, our (day)dreams and visions, even everyday occurrences and their effect on us. May God help us sharpen our discerners with what Tozer, who in my opinion had been inspired by God, wrote about.

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