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What does a real saint look like? You might wonder… 😉

15 Wednesday Nov 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Christian Living, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Entering the Promised Land, fame, Family and Friends, Fellowship with God, Following Jesus, God's Glory, Humility, Humor, Knowing God, Living in the Presence of God, Maturity, Mind of Christ, Ordinary Life, success, Walking in the Spirit

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Just reading Oswald Chambers’ devotional from tomorrow, I was truly hit by what he had to say. I need to admit that it does not happen very often that I appreciate his devotionals because I do not like his sometimes accusatory style of writing (preaching). I am paraphrasing him here a bit, “Do you think you have already arrived? Are you sure you belong to the Lord Jesus? You should not do this … you should not do that… you [seem to do it all wrong – the latter were my words].” This posture reminds me of preachers on the pulpit who seemingly dwell in another, higher spiritual region than their more or less attentive audience does. If we compare such accusations with how often the apostle Paul humbled himself before other, less mature Christians, we might know where and when we must be cautious about believing what we hear or read from other people. Nonetheless, I can tell you whenever Chambers goes over to including himself into what he has to say, I am happy! Lo and behold… below. 😊

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Not by Bread Alone

25 Friday Aug 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Fellowship with God, Following Jesus, God our Father, God's guidance, God's Love, Growing in Christ, Holy Spirit, Knowing God, Living in the Presence of God, My Spiritual Diary, Prayer, Satan, The Bible, wilderness, Worship in Spirit and Truth

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Have you ever felt enlivened although you did not eat anything that gave your weak body some strength back again? I have and I really wondered… Two days ago I had been struggling with another attack of summer cholera (no details here). 😛 After prayer with Michael Clark, nausea left rather quickly and in the evening I could even get out of bed again which seemed to be impossible to me before. Well, after a precious time I could spend with God in silent prayer on one of our balconies as the sun was setting, I felt much stronger and thought I could write another blog post if He inspired me to do so. But God’s leading, you know… 😉 No blog post, yet the urge to do something for God in order to help someone out of a tricky situation. It was not easy for me to obey here, but as soon as I had done so, though, I felt so ALIVE as if I had not been sick before at all. Quite the contrary! 😊 This experience reminded me of two parts in the NT as follows. As Jesus would have this very deep talk with the woman at the well, his disciples who brought some food could not understand what Jesus had eaten as they told Him,

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How to find out another ‘Christian’ spirit

21 Monday Aug 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Authority, Building up the Body of Christ, Christ in us, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Exhortation, False Spirits, Following Jesus, God's guidance, Light and Darkness, peace, Power of His Resurrection, Resisting the Devil, Resurrection Life, Speaking the Truth in Love, Spirit vs. Flesh, Submission to God, Walking in the Spirit

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“For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts…” (Ps 95:7-8 ESV)

I have come to know several people who thought they were led by the Holy Spirit, who believed in Jesus as their Lord, and who prayed to God, their Father. Alas, the spirits they usually listen to are mostly the voices of their own soul’s desires, their own mind’s ideas, and their self’s pushing interests. Here the question arises whether it makes sense to try to correct someone who is absolutely convinced of being led by God? I am afraid it might be of little help to do so unless God tells us to open our mouths in His perfect time. But speaking up and telling them the truth might turn out a damaging experience if these people are too unstable to be confronted with their deception yet. Maybe, they are confused, maybe, they are mentally sick, maybe, they were led into error by the wrong people.

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Hope… in spite of it all

20 Monday Mar 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, entering the Kingdom of God, Exhortation, Following Jesus, Friendship with God, God our Father, God's Voice, grace, Growing in Christ, Healing, Hope, Prayer, Spiritual Leadership, Submission to God, suffering, The Cross

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Before going to bed I read Oswald Chambers’ devotional on “Friendship with God” which I will copy and paste further below. Although I read that one before and would believe it was true, I always felt that there was something missing. God who does neither act logically nor chronically as we might like it, revealed the missing piece to me a few hours before I would read this devotional.

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Being Perfectly Balanced

08 Wednesday Mar 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, Fellowship with God, Following Jesus, God's guidance, Holy Spirit

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“Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.” (Mt 7:19-20 ESV) – (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

As I lately took the picture I posted above, I was sure I would use it for a blog article. Nonetheless, I had no clue about what to write as yet. A few days later I added Scripture and, still, I had no idea and no desire to write at all. Just today as I was meditating on this Scripture from Matthew chapter seven again, I wondered what this ‘good fruit’ Jesus spoke of might be and how we could recognize it immediately. It seems to me that all things God works in and through us automatically produce good fruit. Good works, however, we do apart from being led by Him have not sprung from this tree which is rooted in Christ and, therefore, they are not really good in God’s sight. They are even bad! That reminds of the following Scripture where Jesus told us,

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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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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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Under the shadow of His wings

13 Wednesday Jan 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Dying to Self, Exhortation, My Spiritual Diary, New Self, Old Self, Submission to God, suffering, The Dark Night of the Soul, The Dark Night of the Spirit, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Wisdom

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I have been struggling a lot with dying-to-self pains lately. For those who wonder how that might feel, it is as if your inmost being (mainly heart and belly region) is getting burned after one or more flashes of lightning had struck you. Whenever God fills me surprisingly with His light, it often occurs as flashes of bright light I can see moving very swiftly from head to toe through my whole body. And only a few hours later the pain begins. Just lately I have begun to sense an increasing fire in my bones that causes both intense pains for the old self, just as the new self is irresistibly drawn toward the Eternal God, away from all that is created. Although it is extremely painful to lose all those natural attachments to which we might have been used for decades, there is an invisible power and an indescribable love that surpasses all understanding.

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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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My Sheep Hear My Voice

12 Monday Oct 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Discerning the Spirits, Fellowship with God, Following Jesus, God's Love, God's Voice, Humor, My Spiritual Diary, sheep, The Good Shepherd

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My Sheep Hear My Voice (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

My Sheep Hear My Voice
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If we have ever been in love, we know that hearing the voice of the one whom we love can make our heart flutter with anticipation. Well, one might object here that this is a common human experience, however, does it apply to our experience of hearing God just the same? Jesus said,

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” (Jn 10:27 ESV)

This is a promise, a statement that assures us that His sheep can discern His voice from others. Jesus “knows” them, i.e., He loves them, and we might assume as well that their love causes them to follow Him eventually. Although there might be many voices every day that talk to us without interruptions, there must be something special about the voice of the One who created us. In order to illustrate what I just tried to explain, I will share my latest “sheep experience” with you. 😉

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“What is Christianity about?” by Michael and Susanne

10 Saturday Oct 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Agape, Christian Living, Christianity, Dying to Self, Following Jesus, God's Love, Individuality, Justice, Love, Maturity, Wisdom

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He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8 NASB) – Photo by Susanne Schuberth

Good grief, that is a strange question, don’t you think?
Okay, okay, if someone said Christianity was all about Christ, then we would wholeheartedly agree and could stop writing at this point. Nonetheless, that was not what we wanted to talk about here. Instead, we have often wondered whether we as Christians are more known for what we stand against than for what we stand for.

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