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Christ’s Shattered Sheep

17 Monday Jan 2022

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, blogging, Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Church, Deception, Delusion, Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, False Spirits, False Teachers, Fellowship with God, Following Jesus, God's Gifts, God's Holiness, God's Love, God's Voice, Gospels, image of God, Inspiration, Justice, My Spiritual Diary, Prayer, Resurrection Life, sheep, Spiritual Abuse, The Good Shepherd, The Holy Spirit, The World, View of God, Waiting on God, Walking in the Spirit

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The way how this blog post has come into being was really strange. A few days ago I thought about publishing a new article, yet I felt no clear leading apart from posting these pictures of the sheep in a WordPress draft. I also recalled I had written an older blog post about another ‘sheep experience’ that dealt with the how we as His sheep can hear our Master’s loving voice (cf. here). But that seemed to be ‘all’ at that moment. I also searched for a book or an article by T. Austin Sparks that would contain the word ‘sheep’ as part of a title anywhere, but alas, there was nothing. So, I gave up on trying to find something to write about and rather tidied up our flat. Indeed, such an occupation that can turn out a spiritual experience, too. Whether it is cooking, shopping, doing the laundry or else, God is always at hand.  🙂

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Silence… A Secret Way to Wisdom

25 Sunday Jul 2021

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Discerning the Spirits, Entering His Rest, False Spirits, Following Jesus, Liberty, life, My Spiritual Diary, Obedience, peace, Prayer, Resisting the Devil, silence, Spirit vs. Flesh, Submission to God, the mind of Christ, The World, Trusting God, Walking in the Spirit, Wisdom

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I guess many of you know how bad you feel when you said something of which you immediately realized that it was the wrong thing to do. Even if what you uttered was the truth, either the timing was not right or the statement was not spoken in love. Recently the Lord made me aware of certain Scriptures regarding this. Maybe, I will mention some of them further below. What He taught me in practical terms, instead, appeared to be a bit unusual at first.

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Disclosing Deeds of Darkness

17 Sunday Dec 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Born Again, Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Church, Deception, Delusion, Demons, Discerning the Spirits, Disciplining, Exhortation, False Spirits, False Teachers, Family and Friends, Fellowship, Friendship with God, God's guidance, God's Jealousy, Maturity, Mind of Christ, Poetry, Prayer, Preaching, Prophecy, Reblog, Submission to God

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Photo by Sarah Schuberth

To be honest with you, although I was hell-bent on going to bed, quite some time after midnight I felt the strong ‘nudge’ from God to re-publish an older poem of mine, maybe, even two. I do know that this is not my poetry blog and most of my readers prefer reading blog articles instead. Nonetheless, I want to emphasize here, once again, the danger of cherishing any kind of fellowship or friendship, not only with worldly people (which should be clear), but also with those people who are used to meeting on a regular basis where one ought to hear from God. As I have often made clear before, a spirit being who has been birthed from above will, like God, not be predictable in their speaking, writing and doing. We are like the wind if we listen to God’s leading only. So, if we really want to have spiritual relationships first with God and then with one another, too, we do not only need to go away from the world and its pleasures, we should also say ‘Bye bye’ to any regular and obligatory gathering, whatever form it might take (attending church, home church meeting, connecting via internet etc.). The reason for doing so is that we cannot submit to God’s unpredictable leading and to predictable tradition (like preaching or listening to a sermon every Sunday and singing hymns in determined order) at the same time! Either we obey God and cannot be figured by anyone who does not yet have His Spirit, or we submit to another spirit that can be put in a box, a spirit that can be controlled by us. It might be easier and feel better to go on attending meetings with other Christians, but if God does not show up in such a gathering because His Spirit is quenched there, who are we really looking for? 🙄

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Small things and big things or… How to meet God in everyday life

03 Friday Feb 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in antichrist, Building up the Body of Christ, Christian Mystics, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Exhortation, False Spirits, False Teachers, Following Jesus, God's Voice, My Spiritual Diary, Prayer, Spiritual Leadership, The Anointing

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Photo by Susanne Schuberth

I just did a short research on the internet that left me quite frustrated, at least regarding the Christian notion of small things and big things. It has been quite obvious to me that this world is all about recognition, fame, money, fulfilling all your dreams and the pursuit of happiness through sensual pleasures. However, reading the views of famous and successful Christians (aha!), you could find several instructions and to-do lists on how to ”pray for the big things” (Joel Osteen) or the advice that ”spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose” (Joyce Meyer). The latter also said that, “I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.” The problem with what these famous Christian preach and teach is that they sometimes offer a great deal of truth mixed with a tiny amount of lies. That can be really tricky at times as you might see when you read Joel Osteen’s whole quote that says, “I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible” (Emphasis in red is my suggestion of the little lies in these two quotes here).

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Being Blessed by GOD or… Satan’s Sensual Substitutes for the Truth

03 Thursday Mar 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abundant Life, Being Set Free, Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Deception, Delusion, Discerning the Spirits, Ecstasy, Eternal Life, Exhortation, False Spirits, Immaturity, Maturity, Obedience, Satan, Seeking the Truth, Spiritual Guidance, Spiritual Sight

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“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” (Jn 14:15 ESV) Picture Credits http://www.pamelavcarmichael.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/the-blessed-life_4034.jpg

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” (Jn 14:15 ESV)
Picture Credits http://www.pamelavcarmichael.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/the-blessed-life_4034.jpg

Are we still looking for continued peace, joy, and wellbeing? If we only learn to listen to His Spirit’s guidance more closely and more often, we will experience all of God’s blessings in an ever increasing measure, for it is written,

But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. (Jer 7:23-24 ESV)

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The Consequences of Fully Belonging to God in Christ

12 Friday Feb 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Being Set Free, Building up the Body of Christ, Church, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Exhortation, Fellowship of His Sufferings, Following Jesus, God's Love, Light and Darkness, Maturity, Suffering and Joy, The Cross, The World

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Attaining Maturity of Faith - Together  (Picture credits http://samuelosaghae.com/html/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/reaching_out_924_345.jpg)

Attaining Maturity of Faith Together
(Picture credits http://samuelosaghae.com/html/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/reaching_out_924_345.jpg)

Has it ever occurred to you that God always separated a people for Himself and that it was never His intention that His people should be yoked with unbelievers (cf. 2 Cor 6:14)? I dare say, we should not even be yoked with Christians who remain stuck in this world and keep to this world’s mentality and pleasures, either. Also, I want to include tradition and religious rituals of any kind here that need to be stripped off if we want to obey God’s voice daily at any given moment. At first this separation from the world is made by the Holy Spirit’s power in our own hearts and minds. But sooner or later we might realize, a bit startled perhaps, that the line God drew between those who are His and those who are not His has become an unbridgeable gap. We might still hope that we could get along with those who believe in God in a way that is much different from ours. Furthermore, we might still be intent on loving those who keep attacking us because they do not understand the paths on which God leads us, however, we need to come to grips with the fact that a heart to heart communication apart from God’s Spirit is no longer possible with them unless we want to share their often ungodly ways.

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On the Consistency of Thought and Deed

08 Monday Feb 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, Charity, Deception, Delusion, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Exhortation, Fellowship of His Sufferings, God's Love, God's Voice, Resisting the Devil, Satan, The Truth, The Word

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Picture credits http://stores.jkmstore.org/spirits-that-hinder-the-flow-of-god-in-your-life-mp3/

Michael Clark and I wrote this blog post together, once again. As it has often been the case, I, Susanne, start with writing and share my thoughts on a certain topic with Michael and then God gives us a confirmation about writing another joint article.


Can you force yourself to seemingly like what you basically do not like? What a strange question, Susanne! I need to admit that I can’t do it any longer although I tried. My heart won’t let me deceive myself anymore. Even if I like or love someone, I cannot like nor love what they do when their twisted thinking and doing contradicts the truth revealed in Christ. Not that I stop loving them, but my heart is grieved, often very deeply grieved. That hurts a lot indeed!  😦 In the past, I tried to do the impossible, that is, to encourage someone despite their wrong thinking and doing, simply because I liked these people. Well, God showed me how hypocritical that behavior was and how much I put myself in a state of bondage of the wrong spirits through that seemingly “kind” behavior. No, Susanne, that was not kind, it was only “nice.”

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Beware of the Snare in the Air

22 Tuesday Dec 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Church, Deception, Delusion, Demons, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, Fellowship, God's Voice, Gospels, Resisting the Devil, Spirit vs. Flesh, Spiritual Sight, Submission to God, Wisdom

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Marienkirche Hof/Bavaria (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Marienkirche Hof/Bavaria (St. Mary’s Church)
Photo by Susanne Schuberth

“What a strange headline,” one might say here. Leaving aside the fact that I love rhymes, I put the heading that way in order to hint to the possibility that not all snares by the devil can be recognized immediately. The Prince of the Air works in an unseen realm and he is very crafty in manipulating our thought life, which cannot be seen, either. Just recently I read an interesting quote from a man who was finally freed from the bondage of a destructive Christian cult. I took that quote out of a longer testimony which Michael Clark had shared with me. After having left the cult, Tom Murray realized,

No one can consider themselves above the possibility  of deception.

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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
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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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