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How God Opens Man’s Ears to Hear HIS Voice

04 Thursday Apr 2019

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Death, Discerning the Spirits, Endurance, Exhortation, Fellowship of His Sufferings, Following Jesus, God's Voice, God's wrath, pain, peace, Prayer, Salvation, suffering, Wisdom

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Instead of writing a long blog post of my own, I offer you two biblical excerpts from Elihu’s speeches to Job after Job’s ignorant friends had tried to share their human wisdom with him who would suffer a lot. Sometimes we cannot understand why God lets us suffer without telling us WHY and HOW LONG it might take. But there must be a reason why suffering is necessary in our lives, even if we cannot see the reason right now. Here is wisdom that Elihu, inspired by the Holy Spirit, suggested to Job on (1) ‘How does God make us hear Him?’ and on (2) ‘Why does He not answer us as we expect Him to do?’

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“Deceived by religiousness” by T. Austin Sparks

23 Tuesday Oct 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Church, Deception, Delusion, Discerning the Spirits, Fellowship, Fellowship with God, God's Voice, Growing in Christ, Resisting the Devil

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Just reading yesterday’s daily devotional by T. Austin Sparks, the introducing Bible verse somehow hit me. It says,

“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” (Rev 18:4 KJV)

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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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What Selflessness Is Like

12 Tuesday Sep 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Abundant Life, Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Eternal Life, Faith, Fellowship with God, God our Father, God's Love, Happiness, Knowing God, Salvation, Satan, Self-Forgetfulness, Sickness, Spirit vs. Flesh, The Holy Spirit

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Picture credits https://www.happywholehuman.com/help-people-rise/

I just bumped into a blog where someone was praised to the skies for being able to do gymnastics at an advanced age. There is nothing wrong about such a laudation in itself since this and similar things are that which our fallen world can exclusively look at. Whatever is visible, audible, tangible, countable, measurable, yes, everything that is perceptible by our senses will be praised if it promises pleasure to people. As I skimmed through the comments section of this blog post, the longest response there caught my eye. The commenter, of course, was still older than the aforementioned person who would receive rave reviews, and he, outrageously, won this and that competition at an even higher age. Dear reader, it was almost impossible for me to finish reading their self-praise by which I felt greatly repelled. :-/ What about those people who cannot behave as they would want? What about those who are sick and cannot move their bodies any longer as they would love to? I doubt you will find any writing on the internet where these people are praised… BUT…

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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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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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The Glory of God… is ours!

09 Saturday Apr 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Abundant Life, Being Set Free, Death, Dying to Self, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Entering the Promised Land, Eternal Life, Life in the Kingdom of God, Living in the Presence of God, New Self, Old Self, Resurrection Life, Salvation, The Glory of God, Walking in the Light

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The Dawning of a New Day or... Spiritual Springtime (Photo by Michael Clark)

The Dawning of a New Day or… Spiritual Springtime                      (Photo by Michael Clark)

Actually, I was searching for something else on the net as I suddenly found an exposition on the glory of God by Alexander MacLaren. I could not stop reading although I can hardly relate right now to all these wonderful blessings he wrote about. Even while deeply suffering, I am still sitting here, knowing that which I read there is the truth. Dear brothers and sisters, have you ever heard someone preach or teach on the possibility of being glorified even during this life on earth? I am speaking spiritually here, of course! However, as far as I can see it, you often only find Christian writings about justification and/or sanctification. And you also hear that sanctification will not be finished unless we are in heaven after our physical death. Yet is that biblical truth too? Although the Bible speaks about the necessity to die once (Heb 9:27), we also have Jesus’ mysterious promise he confided to Martha whose brother Lazarus had died before,

“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” (Jn 11:25-26 ESV)

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A Spiritual Self Check

16 Monday Nov 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, Freedom from the Law, God's Love, Immaturity, Maturity, New Self, Old Self, Spirit vs. Flesh, The Cross, The Fear of God, The Fruit of the Spirit, Walking in the Spirit

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A Biblical Self Check (Picture taken from https://goffwilson.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/self_check.jpg)

A Biblical Self Check
(Picture taken from https://goffwilson.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/self_check.jpg)

We should be aware that the devil does not sleep. Last Thursday as I checked my blog “Entering the Promised Land” on the cell phone when I was sitting at the hairdresser, I saw four ads popping up beneath one of my articles which I normally do not see when I am logged in on WordPress. One of these ads showed a sort of pornographic picture. We who may use WordPress for free, that means, all who are logged in on WordPress as bloggers ourselves won’t see those often offensive ads other visitors might be confronted with.

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A severe warning against confusing the Holy Spirit’s work with manifestations of mere soul-life

15 Sunday Nov 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, Deception, Demons, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, False Spirits, Immaturity, Maturity, Salvation

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Confusion of the mind... (Picure taken from http://robertbsloan.com/2015/01/26/dont-be-distracted-by-false-teachers/)

Confusion of the mind…
(Picture taken from http://robertbsloan.com/2015/01/26/dont-be-distracted-by-false-teachers/)

Here is another part of my series as to discerning the spirits with which we have to do every day. I observed many different evil spirits that guide other Christians who seem to be convinced they are led by the Holy Spirit of God. For almost four years now I only watched this saddening development particularly on the internet. However, lately I felt that I need to speak up more often about the reality behind the scenes. I know that the truth hurts at times, but if we let God do His work in our hearts and minds, there is nothing to fear for us. On the other hand, if we think have no need for correction because we have arrived at a certain (perfected) point of no return, we can be sure that Satan was the author of such a proud conviction. The humble mind of Christ is all we need and looking to Him for advice as to anything we might say or do, that would be enough for the true believer.

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Can we be deceived?

06 Tuesday Oct 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Christian Mystics, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, God's Love, Hope, Mysticism, Salvation

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“Can our eyes deceive us?”
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I recalled having read a certain quote by Oswald Chambers quite some time ago. However, whenever I tried to find it again, I failed, since I could not remember the exact wording. Just today as I was searching the net for mystical experiences by Christians, I would find some criticism about the very word “mysticism” by T.A. Sparks and A.W. Tozer instead. Of course, there has been false mysticism in Christianity, too, but not all mystical experiences were wrong. As long as one gets closer and closer to the Living God, I would never dare to say that mysticism was a bad thing. The false mystical experience might get obvious to us when we realize that it has caused the believer to get more and more focused on his own person and “ministry” than on the person of Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father. Pride about knowing more than others, arrogance toward not-so-spiritual believers, and sometimes even a sort of megalomania (about what God would be able to do through the little “ME”) go hand in hand with Satan’s spiritual suggestions.

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Faith Comes by Hearing – Only?

18 Thursday Jun 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Church, Encouragement, Faith, Freedom, Preaching, Reading and Writing, Salvation

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Seek The Things That Are Above... (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Seek The Things That Are Above…
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

So often it is stated that faith only comes by hearing and some say if you do not listen to the gospel preached in audible words, you cannot attain faith at all. I often wondered whether that statement was true. Do we know how many people, actually, were able to read and write at the time when the gospel would be preached for the first time? And in the centuries afterwards?

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