27 Sunday Sep 2020
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discerning the spirits, dying to self, encouragement, experience, following Jesus, Jesus Christ, true faith
If you, like me, thought that attaining spiritual perfection meant becoming a better human being, someone who does not make the same mistakes again and again as they did before… it seems to me now that I might have been wrong.
14 Friday Sep 2018
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darkness, deception, discerning the spirits, dying to self, experience, God's goodness, heart, light, mind, prayer, Satan, sin, spiritual attacks, temptations, the, the cross, thoughts
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.
19 Saturday May 2018
Posted in Abiding IN Christ, blogging, Building up the Body of Christ, Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Freedom, God's Grace, Growing in Christ, My Spiritual Diary, New Self, Old Self, Prayer, Relax and Chill Out, rest, Sitting at His Feet, Suffering and Joy, Waiting on God
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bondage, burden, discerning the spirits, duties, encouragement, entering his rest, freedom, relief, rest, the new self, the old self
To be honest with you, sometimes I would rather write theoretically about any topic I have only heard of than always sharing what I have just experienced with God. If I could talk about another great revelation of sorts, okay, everybody would like to share or read such stories. But another lesson learned through worries, doubts, fears, stress and suffering? Therefore, what I ask myself often is this, ‘Who really wants to read my testimonies about the latter anyway?’… Only those who can relate, I guess.
23 Friday Mar 2018
Posted in Being Set Free, Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Encouragement, Fellowship with God, God calls, God's Love, God's Voice, Growing in Christ, Holy Spirit, Humility, Living in the Presence of God, Prayer, Revelation, Self-knowledge, Sitting at His Feet, Spirit vs. Flesh, Submission to God, The Cross, Waiting on God, wilderness
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desert, discerning the spirits, dying in the wilderness, dying to self, eternal fire, experience, fellowship, fire, flesh, following Jesus, God's love, honesty, living water, Moses, natural life, revelation, Roger T. Forster, T.A. Sparks, true ministry
Roger T. Forster, whose article “Making History with God” I found in T. Austin Sparks’ library online, would write,
“God is writing history, but He is drawing men into fellowship with Himself as He does so, making them the occasion for a chapter in His book of the story of humanity. There is a chapter for Noah, a chapter for Abraham, a chapter for Moses and many others, and a chapter for you and me. He calls us to share in His great declaration, ‘I am bringing to pass what I am bringing to pass’, encouraging us to be like Moses, a hole in the ground filled with His living water, or a common bush, aflame with the unquenchable fire of His love, so that He can use us in His great movement of liberation.”
20 Tuesday Mar 2018
Posted in Christian Living, Death, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, God's Grace, God's guidance, God's Love, God's Voice, Obedience, Ordinary Life, Reading and Writing, rest, Seeking God, Seeking the Truth, Spirit vs. Flesh, The Holy Spirit, The Kingdom of God, The World, Vanity, Waiting on God, Wisdom
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aging, blessings, books, commandments, death, disaster, discerning the spirits, exhortation, experience, following Jesus, God's love, hurry, Judgment, mind, obedience, rest, restlessness, the fear of God, the Kingdom of God, the new self, the old self, this world, thought life, waiting, wisdom, youth
If someone nurtures soaring hopes and plans, we might tell them to stay more grounded or earthed instead. But have you ever heard someone suggest to you to get more ‘heavened’? 🙄 If you, like me, often times wonder about the seeming hopelessness of our existence as we cannot sense the presence of God while (sometimes ridiculous) everyday troubles keep preying on our minds, you might have also observed non-Christians who can seemingly live their lives confronted with less problems and difficulties than we can. Yet, in the long run, that is not the truth. The Book of Ecclesiastes tells us some sobering facts.
08 Friday Sep 2017
Posted in Abiding IN Christ, Being Set Free, Building up the Body of Christ, Christ in us, Christian Living, Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Fellowship with God, Friendship with God, God's guidance, joy, Mind of Christ, Ministry, My Spiritual Diary, peace, Prayer, The World, Transformation, Waiting on God, Walking in the Spirit
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carnal mind, discerning the spirits, experience, good works, joy, mind, peace, prayer, rest, service, soul-life, spiritual flow, spiritual transformation, T.A. Sparks, the mind of Christ, the new self, the old self, thought life, walking by the spirit
This title might sound a bit simple to some, yet I was wondering whether it is always that easy for us to distinguish between our natural way of living and its spiritual counterpart which springs from Christ’s Life in us. Just lately I got aware of certain differences between my natural soul life’s powers and God’s supernatural powers we might receive through spiritual communion and fellowship with Him. Sometimes these two ways of living take turns within a few seconds and I am amazed at how different they really are! Even if our natural thinking, speaking, and doing is sophisticated, sooner or later we get exhausted if we remain on this level… UNLESS we can be sure of man’s approval and appreciation! If someone applauds, our soul receives new power and energy with which we can go on, even without God, and even without realizing that we left Him somehow behind.
27 Saturday May 2017
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dying to self, inspiration, Life and Death, suffering, T.A. Sparks, the old self, trials, wilderness
Rosenheim/Inn
April 30th, 2017
Basically, I wanted to go to bed early. However, before I checked the internet as I sometimes do and there I read in the news that someone had died today. Not knowing who this man would be, I felt nudged to read more about him. Wikipedia told me that he was a Swiss man who passed away at the age of only forty years in the exercise of his favorite occupation which had been rock climbing and mountaineering. As I checked out his website, I clicked on some beautiful pictures I really marveled at. Not completely sure which photo I liked the most, I eventually chose one of them for my blog and began to write on here. Only a few minutes later I returned to this man’s website in order to insert this and, perhaps, another picture into my blog article, as I wondered again. Good pictures, yes. Even very good pictures, taken by a professional, no doubt about this. But where was this very first amazement I had felt? This awe and wonder, this joy about I-do-not-know-what-it-is as John of the Cross once called it (am paraphrasing him here). They were completely gone! I was no longer interested in these pictures that seemed to be normal, even ‘dead’ to me now and I decided to delete what I had just written, all at once. Well, God’s leading, you know, is truly a strange thing at times…
