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What is Spiritual Perfection?

27 Sunday Sep 2020

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Being Set Free, Building up the Body of Christ, Crucified Self, Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Faith, Following Jesus, God's guidance, Trusting God, Waiting on God

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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.

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A True Revival or… Living A Deathless Life

12 Sunday Jan 2020

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Abundant Life, Being Born Again, Building up the Body of Christ, comfort, Death, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Eternal Life, Faith, Fear of Death, Life and Death, Power of His Resurrection, Revival, The Dawning of A New Day

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T. Austin Sparks wrote,

What is the supreme evidence of the living God being amongst us? It is that we know Jesus Christ as triumphant over the power of death in our experience: for, having met death in its full power, its full force, its flood-tide, He triumphed. It was the flood-tide of death that was encountered at Calvary; death, in all that death means, something far beyond mere physical death, even all the terrible, wicked power of spiritual death. The Lord Jesus went into the flood of iniquitous death, and death’s power was taken from it, and it could not overflow. He broke the power of death and its curse, and made death stand back. “He tasted death in the behalf of every man“.

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“The Rest of Faith” by T. Austin Sparks

26 Friday Apr 2019

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abundant Life, Being Set Free, Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Entering His Rest, Faith, rest, Unbelief

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The following text has been made up of some excerpts from a longer article by T. Austin Sparks which is called The Rest And The Courage Of Faith.

“Many of us have not really entered into Christianity yet. What do I mean? Well, for one thing, the very door into true Christianity is the door of rest, the rest of faith. The very simple way in which the Lord put it in His appeal was – “Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28).” [Emphasis added]

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A Pact with the Devil

22 Tuesday Jan 2019

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Cults, Deception, Delusion, Demons, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, False Teachers, Following Jesus, Freemasonry, Resisting the Devil, Satan, Sects, Seeking the Truth

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This time you might wonder at the topic I chose to write about. Like the charismatic issue that has bothered me for some time and eventually led to my last article, today I felt I should start to illustrate the possible dangers that might approach us in our every day life through people who are not necessarily Christians although they sometimes claim to believe in God. I am referring to ‘noble’, well-deemed people (mostly men) who might work as university professors, physicians, judges, notaries or bank directors. This list is anything but exhaustive. It might only serve to point you to the credibility their profession normally lends to them. What they all have in common is that they are (very) successful. Most of the times they are rich at that. Sometimes they become famous, too, sooner or later. However, they had to do something in order to get there. As German author and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in his work “Faust” described, “The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.” (1)

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It’s a Matter of Faith

26 Thursday Oct 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Church, confusion, Deception, Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Exhortation, Faith, False Spirits, Fellowship of His Sufferings, Following Jesus, God's Voice, Inspiration, Knowing God, Obedience, peace, Spirit vs. Flesh, The Bride of Christ, The Cross

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A misty morning, sitting at the hairdresser. Looking out the window, I see people hurrying to and fro around the main station area in Fürth. As I had asked the Lord whether I should begin to write a new blog article here or not, He answered, “If you like.” I responded, “Only if YOU like!” since I have had no clue, until now, what to write about. 🤔

However, that’s IT, indeed! 😊 I do not want to write about the BIG things God might be inclined to do through us because that would not be the truth. How many Christians still tend to believe that God’s main interests were in revival, in teaching proper doctrine, in healing the sick and helping the needy, or in evangelism aka preaching the gospel to save the lost? “Hey, wait a moment…” I hear someone say, “The Bible tells us that some of these things you mentioned will follow those who believe.” Yeah, that is right. But do we really believe just as Jesus believed His Father? Do we think that our Lord cared and worried about these issues as we do today? Or did He not, rather, care about what His tender loving Daddy in heaven had on His mind at any given moment?

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The Connection Between the Fear of God and Justification

13 Friday Oct 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Dying to Self, Entering His Rest, Faith, Fear of Death, God's Grace, God's Holiness, God's Love, joy, Judgment, Justification, Living in the Presence of God, My Spiritual Diary, peace, Repentance, Righteousness, suffering, The Fear of God, The Fear of the Lord

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Garden in Weihenstephan (Upper Bavaria)

The following is an excerpt of a (not published) book I wrote about seven years ago. I just translated a text of my journal which should clarify that the experience of the fear of God and being justified by Him usually go hand in hand.

To separate awe from God from an everyday, natural fear is not easy. For it is real fear as other languages ​​also make clear:

Gottesfurcht (German)

crainte de Dieu (French)

timore di Dio (Italian)

temor de Dios (Spanish)

The fear of God is, above all, the fear of displeasing God by transgressing His commandments. I believe a further difference compared with other fears is that our natural anxieties cause narrowness inside our mind and make us think of running away from a frightening situation. “Cut and run!” the thief might think when suddenly confronted with the policeman. He, too, is, or at least should be frightened when he must face governmental authority. Nevertheless, it might happen that the thief, instead, goes over to attacking the authority figure when he realizes that his getaway route has been cut off.

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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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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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Seeking Silence

12 Saturday Aug 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Deception, Delusion, Discerning the Spirits, Entering His Rest, Exhortation, Faith, Healing, Seeking God, Sitting at His Feet, Spirit vs. Flesh, Temptation

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Bibel TV Hamburg, deception, discerning the spirits, exhortation, experience, Flesh vs. Spirit, healing, health, Jesus Christ, Malaika Orth, peace, prayer, rest, spiritual power, T.A. Sparks, true faith

A week ago I got inspired to write my latest blog post Worth the Fight… Extending Inner Quietness, as I had read the newsletter of a German Bible TV program. Although I stopped watching TV of any kind more than eight years ago, I still get this newsletter and I saw that there are some people whom God gives pretty good thoughts. 😉 I decided to translate for you what would speak to me and to compare it with that which T. Austin Sparks had written about the same issue. At first it might seem to be a contradiction what both authors had to say. But Lord willing, this inconsistency might be dissolved. Please, feel free to share your own thoughts and concerns in a response below. I always appreciate and welcome genuine comments and sharing! So, first see Malaika Orth’s description about her own experiences with seeking silence. Malaika Orth is an editor at Bibel TV in Hamburg/Germany.

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Beware of Job’s false friends

07 Friday Apr 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in antichrist, Authority, Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Circumcision, compassion, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Exhortation, Faith, False Spirits, Fellowship, Friendship, My Spiritual Diary, Prayer, Satan, Seeking the Truth, Submission to God, The Bride of Christ

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“Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.” (Phil 3:8-12 KJV) – Photo by Susanne Schuberth

I have often pondered the thought to close the comments section completely and to remove the LIKE buttons, too. The reason why I have not done it until now was that I appreciate feedback on what I write and that I have learned a lot from commenters as well. However, it has become clear to me that this continued struggle to moderate or to not moderate responses, or to eventually delete replies I had moderated before as another hidden evil spirit finally manifested in a longer comment thread, this struggle is quite exhausting for me and it is very distracting at that. I sooo love and long to hear God’s voice through commenters and, dear reader, sometimes it really happens! There is a handful of faithful commenters who only weigh in when they have something encouraging to contribute. They act cautiously and lovingly, pondering on what God might have to say. As for these, I paste a quote I found today on my daily Catholic kitchen calendar. It reads,

“A friend is someone who takes your hand and touches your heart.” (Author unknown)

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What hinders spiritual growth

14 Tuesday Mar 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, Faith, False Spirits, Fellowship, Following Jesus, God's guidance, God's Love, Humility, Immaturity, Judgment, Maturity, Speaking the Truth in Love

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STOP!!! … AND RUN when you sense deceiving spirits approaching you! (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Let me begin with an analogy we all know. Imagine you see a small child that has not been fed properly by his parents. Instead, he was badly nourished and therefore grows slowly, even much slower than his peers. Maybe, his parents are extremely poor and cannot feed this child as they should. If this small child gets no help from others, sooner or later the first sicknesses will befall him and most probably, he won’t get that old, either. What is so sad to observe in the physical realm exists in the spiritual realm, too. Nonetheless, the difference is that it is easier to feed a malnourished child than a malnourished spirit being for we can see it immediately when a child is too lean, too pale, and very weak. But how can we discern a believer who has fed on the wrong spirits? Can we see the deception they have fallen prey to as well?  🙄

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