Why The "Panicking Christian"?

Like most Christians, I occasionally find myself in a borderline, all out panic about something which I already knew, but seem to have forgotten or that I only knew in my head, as opposed to my heart. And mercifully, God decides to show me what is really going on or what it is that I needed to know, before I completely lose my mind.

So the writing within is just that. It is that which God has shown and taught me while I was typically in one of those times in my life. Since the way in which He has chosen to reveal things to me tend to be fairly easy to follow and understand, I am sharing them via this format. That said, I take no glory for any of this. It is God whom has given me the ability to write, and it is He who has given me the content to write as well and He who saved me by His glorious grace in the first place.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

East-North by North-East

It bothers me no small amount when I see Christians doing and following these little "harmless" things that I know are not of God.  Everything from Astrology and Tarot cards, to Ouija boards (including the homemade versions like the "Charlie" thing) and mystical healing powers of all forms (crystals, incantations over candles, etc). These things are NOT of God and they certainly are NOT harmless. God does talk about such things in the Bible and not in a favorable light. They are all forms and practices of witchcraft. Yes I said witchcraft and I do not mean Harry Potter - I mean powered and empowered via Satan and his cohorts. That 'energy' your sensing is not your own, it is his. That is who you have tapped into. I know no few will counter with "oh no, that is the energy/spirit in the world" but I ask you, "who is the spirit of the world"? (1 Cor.2:12; Gal.4:3; Eph.2:2).

You cannot merely play with these things anymore than you can play with a cobra and then be shocked when you get bitten and poisoned by it. These things are real. They are dangerous.

I am not about to jump in with others who say not to bother with such things because they do not work or are not real. If they did not or were not, why would God bother to warn against them? No, they are very real and sometimes they do work. Look at the Apostle Paul's encounter with a fortune teller in Acts 16 - he did not cast that spirit out because it was not real.

If nothing else, you cannot follow Christ AND follow other religions/beliefs. If Christ is leading you East, and the others are leading you North, the best you can do is go North-East which, in case you have not guessed, means you are not actually following Christ at all. You may be fairly close in the beginning but, in the end, you are going to be pretty far apart from each other.

If you are engaged with any of these things, you have got to break  away from them. You are willingly playing with the power of the enemy and inviting him to 'hang out' with you.

As with all that I pen within here, I try to be honest and truthful to you ... and I tend to speak from experience and not from book knowledge. This is no exception.

To God be the glory.
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