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Worth the Fight… Extending Inner Quietness

08 Tuesday Aug 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Abundant Life, Being Born Again, Building up the Body of Christ, confusion, Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Faith, Family and Friends, God's guidance, Growing in Christ, Humor, joy, My Spiritual Diary, Prayer, Sickness, Spirit vs. Flesh, Submission to God, Suffering and Joy

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Last week I felt a strong nudge to get closer to God and to let go of more and more, partly self-imposed, duties. As a woman, you might know how difficult it is to get rid of old habits and of letting go to care for others (more than they really need it) in order to meet EVERY expectation perfectly. I have also been used to care for my body daily and I sensed that my exhausting workouts tend to make my life more and more burdened. However, I could not get rid of swimming ‘the English Channel’, so to speak. 😉 I do know that I am no longer twenty or thirty and therefore I had begun to take at least one break during the day some years ago. Mostly after dinner I spend time in bed praying. Admittedly, sometimes I fall asleep because of exhaustion. 😉

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How can we recognize if we are guided by the Holy Spirit?

05 Tuesday Jul 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Discerning the Spirits, Entering His Rest, God's guidance, Life in the Kingdom of God, Mind of Christ, My Spiritual Diary, Obedience, Relax and Chill Out, The Dawning of A New Day, The Fruit of the Spirit, Walking in the Spirit

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Stairs under water (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

If you and I want to be led by the Holy Spirit 24/7 and we are insecure about whether we have been led by Him or not, the following excerpt from one of T. Austin Sparks’ articles might be helpful to read. What I did not copy and paste were Sparks’ implementations on how and when Jesus refused to do what others told Him (whether his mother, his siblings, or other people were concerned) because that would have been too long an article on here. Nonetheless, if someone has time and wants to read the whole thing, you will find the link beneath, as always.

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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. Tozer wrote an elaborate article of which I pasted excerpts, but the text is lengthy, still. The numbering slightly differs from the original due to those aforementioned text omissions. If you want to read more, please, follow the link at the bottom. This treatise 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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Pressed Beyond Measure Into Christ

19 Tuesday Apr 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, Death, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Faith, Fellowship, Fellowship of His Sufferings, Following Jesus, Reblog, Satan, Unity of Faith

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This is another joint article by Michael Clark and me. Our common spiritual experiences were the foundation of our deliberations and conclusions in this post. If you have ever tried to really follow the Lord closely, you might know that Satan does not sleep but keeps attacking you as often as possible in order to drive you only deeper into the arms of God. Of course, that was NOT the devil’s intention! Instead, he merely wanted to discourage and finally destroy you. But whenever Satan means evil against us, God always means it for our good (see Gen 50:20).

A Wilderness Voice

By Michael Clark and Susanne  Schuberth

Pressed Into ChristFor we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence [Grk, apokrima – an answer] of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead: (2Cor 1:8-9, KJ2000)

Susanne Schuberth recently took this picture on one of her prayer walks and sent it to me (Michael) and I cropped it to fit.

I (Susanne) thought about the biblical meaning of the number four. These four arrows represent the world system that puts those under pressure who eagerly want to follow the Lord. The two people with arrows coming at them from all directions seems to portray what we have been going through for some time with many attacks…

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Life IN Christ… or the cost of discipleship

16 Saturday Apr 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Abundant Life, Dying to Self, Fellowship of His Sufferings, Following Jesus, Freedom, God's guidance, Life in the Kingdom of God, Maturity, Spiritual Guidance, Submission to God, The Cross, The Dark Night of the Soul, The Dark Night of the Spirit

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"And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life." (Mt 19:29 ESV) Picture by Susanne Schuberth

“And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.” (Mt 19:29 ESV) – Picture by Susanne Schuberth

As I thought about describing the difference between our life inside and outside of God, I thought I could share my own experiences with you on here. Just for clarification, I do not speak about the experience of Christ IN us, that is, about feeling his love, joy and peace merely from the inside. Rather, I refer to a life IN God and His kingdom as a completely new experience that approaches us from the outside by simultaneously filling us up from the inside, too. Sounds complicated, doesn’t it…? We might have received some foretaste of such a life beforehand when we all of a sudden were hit by an awareness of ‘I-do-not-know-what-it-is… but-it-is-wonderful’ as we were watching the sun rise or going down, when we saw nature unfolding its beauty in springtime or fall, or when we shared some self-forgetfulness of any kind, be that with children who played peacefully in a sort of innocence that could almost be “touched” or when we felt a very deep and unconditional love for someone who had treated us badly.

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What is the Kingdom of God?

04 Monday Apr 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Abundant Life, Being Born Again, Being Set Free, Entering the Promised Land, Eternal Life, Resurrection Life, The Glory of God, The Kingdom of God

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"May [God] give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints." (Eph 1:17-18 ESV) - Photo by Susanne Schuberth

“May [God] give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.” (Eph 1:17-18 ESV)
– Photo by Susanne Schuberth

I know that many people, especially those who left the organized church, have realized that church buildings, programs, and Christian activities of any kind have nothing to do with the Kingdom of God. However, have you ever heard back from someone if you asked them about the reality of this usually unseen realm? I chose to paste an excerpt from Dorothy L. Sayers which I came across more than two years ago. I read that quote on another blog and it really hit me. Here you are.

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Living Life Abundantly

28 Sunday Feb 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Abundant Life, Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Entering the Promised Land, Eternal Life, Fellowship with God, Life in the Kingdom of God, Power of His Resurrection, Resurrection Life, Spiritual Life, Walking in the Light, Walking in the Spirit

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The Way That Leads to LIFE is Long and Hard (Mt 7:14), but every path comes to an end, finally... (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

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The following excerpts from T. Austin-Sparks explain the difference between the natural man and the spiritual man who allows himself to be guided by God 24/7. A fairly long time might have passed until we have finally despaired of our old Adam’s nature and leave it all up to Him. But once we have died to self, Christ’s resurrection power begins to flow into our renewed mind and into a completely new heart that was given us by God as well. From that time on we can fully enjoy life with Christ in the kingdom of God, just as Jesus promised here,

“I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” (Jn 10:10 ESV)

Eventually, here is T.A. Sparks’ exposition on ‘Fellowship with God’ (1) which I found to be very helpful for me. I hope it serves you, too, dear reader. As a side note, I became aware of this article by TAS as I read another quote from him on Becky Johnson’s blog yesterday [note: the blog has been deleted by now, that is, in March 2023].

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Instead of Sanctification: The crossless gospel spirit

10 Thursday Dec 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Deception, Delusion, Discerning the Spirits, Doctrine, Exhortation, False Spirits, Happiness, Healing, Justification, Living in the Presence of God, New Self, Old Self, Resisting the Devil, Salvation, Sanctification, Spiritual Guidance, The Fear of God, The Gospel

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Every gospel that focuses on man instead of focusing on Christ is anti-Christian by nature. (Picture taken from https://thepropheticnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/antichrist.jpg)

Every gospel that focuses on man instead of focusing on Christ is anti-Christian by nature.
(Picture taken from https://thepropheticnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/antichrist.jpg)

I am sure there are more versions of that kind of gospel today and I presume there will pop up more and more of them in these last confusing days where Satan appears as an angel of light. However, I want to merely focus on two different manifestations of the crossless gospel I have met particularly on the internet since I began to write online comments in English on December 1, 2011. I would like to refer to these two confusing sub-categories as Spiritless Salvation of the Sinner and Spiritual Self-Salvation.

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Confusion vs. Clarity or… The Difference Between God’s and Satan’s Voice

30 Monday Nov 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, Christ in us, Communion, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Entering His Rest, Exhortation, Following Jesus, Intimacy with God, Knowing God, Living in the Presence of God, Maturity, My Spiritual Diary

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And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. “I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name." (Rev 3:7-8 ESV) (Picture taken from http://www.alive.com/health/from-confusion-to-clarity/)

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. “I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.” (Rev 3:7-8 ESV)
(Picture taken from http://www.alive.com/health/from-confusion-to-clarity/)

Let’s say some people request you to do various things for them, but you immediately see that it would be an impossible task to do everything during the free time you have been given by God. If you are like me, you might have tried to do ALL things as quick as possible, though. In fact, I always thought that would be loving, kind, and polite to act that way. However, lately the Lord showed me how unloving it was. Not that I had been unloving toward others, but it began to dawn on me that I neglected my own needs extremely, or in other words, I hated myself. On Saturday I discovered an interesting quote on my daily calendar in the kitchen. It reads,

“The ability to give voice to the word ‘No’ is the first step toward freedom.”
(Nicolas Chamfort)

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Light Casts a Spell on Everything

01 Tuesday Sep 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Christian Living, Fellowship with God, Light and Darkness, Living in the Presence of God, My Spiritual Diary, Relax and Chill Out, Seeking God, Spiritual Sight, Suffering and Joy, The Dark Night of the Soul, The Dark Night of the Spirit, Wisdom

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"Moonlight reflecting across the ocean" (Wallpaper)

“Moonlight reflecting across the ocean” (Wallpaper)

If we were to live in the darkness 24/7, our lives would look much differently. Not only that they were much shorter because of the lack of sunlight and the lack of its positive consequences on our body and soul. Also, our whole environment and surroundings were not that beautiful, I assume. Recently, I was reminded of what I just described when I compared two situations on different days with one another. The other day I was swimming in a lake when there was no sun but only dark gray clouds in the sky. The water did not look that inviting; it was rather obscure, shadowy, and opaque. As soon as “something” touched my legs in the deep water, it made me shudder.  😛

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