Ok guys this developed into a larger personal testimony than intended, but please study the issues I bring up here, the strudy will equip you more than you realise.
Heb 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Eph 6:12-18 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
For the last week I have had whirling around my head the above Hebrews verse, yet God forgive me I didn?t go and look it up until today L. However it is time that we a Christians stopped concentrating on tearing each other to shreds and looking at each other as the enemy just because we do not understand certain passages of scripture. It is time to open our hearts and minds to the possibility that God?s Holy Spirit can and will bring us into harmony one with another ? if we study with open minds and open hearts.
That however is not the point of this study, the point is the following essay I have written both as part of my own repentance and as a warning to my fellow believers. There are many ?New age? types of healing in this world that actually sound good and actually have a biblical type of basis ? except for one point: they take Faith in God out of the equation, and put in a ?force? or ?the universe?, thereby making it acceptable to all. These people are teaching us how to tap into the ?energy? world, the problem is that what in actual fact they teaching you to tap into is the spiritual realm, and then leaving you ?up the creek without a paddle?, for they teach you to open up and let the ?energy just flow through you?, and to do this you are supposed to ?connect to your higher power?. This is frightening stuff, approximately five years ago I got hold of some material that taught this and it talked about healing by ?energy? and this came from your ?higher power? etc, but what attracted me more than anything it gave logical and practical explanations on basically how to create scientific miracles. Seeing the biblical way in which this could work, I became involved (not deeply thank the Lord, but far enough that I was able to tap into the ?energy? fairly well. This was well and good, and about four years ago, when I was in Hospital I tapped into the energy fields of those on the ward I was on. What I experienced when I tapped into the field of the woman who was next to me I will never forget, the night I did so was the last night she lived, and something in me knew that it would be. WARNING: Moving in the spirit world IS NOT for the faint hearted or for those who do not know what they are doing, as I did not that night. When moving in the spirit realm, for that is what I now realise is what I was doing, when God is with a person, and that person is healthy, the atmosphere around you is fluid, and although it has some magnetic resistance is easy to move around in, however the atmosphere of evil is totally different, the only way I can describe it is that it is like trying to walk in something like thick treacle. The more evil there is the worse the atmosphere is the spirit realm. This I did not realise when I naively tapped in to this ?energy field?. However I felt and knew she was close to death and did as much as I knew how to do at that time. However when I found out the next morning that she had passed on it scared me with a realisation of how little I knew of what I was doing with that form of treatment and vowed never to be careless with it again. However I must now tell the experience I have had these last few days as to why I tell this story as a warning and repentance.
This last week I have been waiting for God to provide me with a miracle financially that I know would only come from Him. However two days ago I asked God to show me what was going on with certain items that a friend was selling to try and help me. I had been told before those items needed spiritual warfare and I spent time praying over them before, but something happened two days ago that made me suspicious there was more that had not been known before, so I went to the Lord in prayer, and He sent me a vision that I researched some facts around and confirmed what I had seen, this was the beginning of a very strange 48hrs for me. Just as I had started realising what was going on, I saw a mouse in my home ? nothing of itself strange, yet looking back there is a few very strange things about this incident on its own that I have only just realised. First when I yelled at the mouse, instead of being a typical rodent and ignoring the one yelling, it stopped in it?s tracks and looked at me stunned as if I shouldn?t have been seeing it. Second when it ran and disappeared I have looked since for signs of a mouse being in the house, and I cannot even find a dropping, let alone anything chewed or any other sign that there is a mouse. Anyway that mouse is incidental to the story a mere distraction. After I ate my supper and started on my research first I could not establish connection to the sites I needed to research, and then I emailed person involved and just as I sent the email I knew my night was going to a strange one, for immediately I sent that email I felt in my collarbone a sharp pain as if I had been stabbed or something of that nature right in the collar bone, the pain was intense. Yet in the physical there was nothing. I immediately recognized what had happened and went into prayer mode and it was at this point also that I went to bed, but alas this was to be no ordinary night. Nor was my sleep in the first half of the night to be ordinary sleep. As I was praying about those items, part of my prayer was that God would show me what was going on in the spiritual realm, and as I continued to prayer unceasingly for the next three hours, I remember at one point feeling a partial breakthrough and keeping going, slowly my prayer and my sleep came together, and I had a very strange dream. Now from the time that I started praying to the time I woke up I knew I was battling the forces of darkness, at one point it felt like the whole of hell was coming against me. Yet it the atmosphere in the spirit was this thick treacle texture. If you don?t resist it has the definite ability to crush the air out of your lungs, even in the physical. At that point I needed every resource to battle these powers of darkness. In the Hebrews text here Paul is talking about resisting unto blood, and when you look at the story of Jesus in Gethsemene we find that such was the extreme battle his physical appearance was changed, and he was actually sweating drops of blood. Although the Cross paid the price, the spiritual battle was won in Gethsemene.
Brethren there is a difference between paying lip service to there being a God and there being a devil and that The Holy Spirit gives us power over the demons, and truly wrestling unto blood, putting on the whole armour of God. Brethren we are unprepared for what we fight, unprepared for how truly epic the battle is, and much worse it will get over the next ten years. I have told my experience here (most of this I have told for the first time here today) not to boast of what I have gone through but to warn you brethren. Study your bibles, for there is a war that only the VERY elect will survive. There is a war that most of us do not even know is going on. This war is not one to go into half shod or partially shod or without any of the armour of God. No war is one to go into unprepared, but brethren just walking an aisle or saying a prayer once is not enough, we need to go on our knees in repentance daily, hourly brethren for in total repentance and total surrender to God is our victory. Brethren if God asks you to do something, even if it is uncomfortable please do it AS SOON AS YOU CAN, even if that means that you take a leap of faith. I have learned that when God says do X there?s usually a reason for it, and as such then we gain the greatest rewards and blessings by immediate obedience, rather than procrastination and saying well when I can or if I can, for such will never be the case for the Devil WILL make sure you never can get around to it, or afford it, or whatever the reason is that you put it off. As the scriptures says ?While it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.?Hebrews 3:15.
Truly brethren today is the day to choose whom you will serve, for TV, Radio, and all manner of other things clamour for our attention all day long, but God asks for our daily devotion: Will you serve Him or no? That was the Question of Joshua when He said Choose ye this day who you will serve, and also was the question of Elijah when he said How long halt ye between two opinions if God be God then follow him, but if baal, then follow him.
If you choose to follow God, do not do so half heartedly or trying to extricate yourself from what He requires, but with a simple honest heart of devotion, follow Him and do what He asks BECAUSE YOU LOVE HIM, any other reason to keep His law is futile for own Righteousnesses are filthy rags, and will never gain us entrance into the Kingdom of God (See parable of the wedding garment). It is my plea that you will Choose the Lord your God this day, and that you will spend time with Him, morning and night equipping yourselves for the good fight. Not using devotionals (although they are nice) but thoroughly searching the word, for a time is coming when we will no longer have the word of God with us any longer, and the Holy Spirit will bring to mind that which we need. Besides the Word is the Sword of Truth. There will be times when you will need to read chapter after chapter of the word together, using it to fight against principalities, reading sometimes beyond the human capabilities to talk out loud, but in warfare it must be read out loud!
Jos 24:15:
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
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