It is rare I waste so much time responding to that type of commenter, but yesterday I had the first quiet day in a very long time. I agree with you, usually I don't bother at all because I don’t waste my time these days.
Yesterday I did a quick search to see Lightseeker's past entries and I disagree with and dislike the anti-Jew bias in some entries.
Allot of those rituals and practices being promoted within the spirituality circles are forms of witchcraft. That's how demons operate. They set up counterfeit constructs and keep people trapped in their dialectics. It's sort of like the left vs right republican vs democrat paradigm. The two parties are controlled by the same masters. It all comes from the same power source. In ancient times people sought their god or their deity for the protection from another. They were sorta like power encounters. Pharaoh called upon his gods for protection and deliverance from the God of Israel(who was unknown at the time for the most part), but those gods he trusted in were put to shame and utterly humiliated. The gods were really just the fallen angels and demons. Obviously they were no match for The True God who DELIVERED his people.
I actually spent a season living above a lady who brought witchcraft into our duplex. I'm not sure the exact point and time she did, but for months there was a heaviness and vacuum of peace in the house. It's hard to explain unless you experience it, but it almost felt as if a vice grip was always squeezing my heart. I would lay in bed and it was like some type of unseen weight was on my soul. It's like a heaviness I couldn't shake. I thought I was going to go crazy for months until one day I told The Lord I can't take it anymore and the very next morning I come to learn the lady downstairs brought witchcraft into the house. It's strange how it happened like it did. It's almost as if God was showing me the source of the oppression.
I've read this before and agree. I think the devil comes as everything we've (people as a whole) have ever wanted. Those into witchcraft and satanism are in it for the power, most likely, and deceived by the obvious satanic inversion of the truth, such as thinking the garden of Eden account (Genesis 3) really was about God holding out on people and making the serpent the hero or even Eve and Adam. God shows mercy in not letting them eat from the tree of life after and living forever in a sinful state without a redeemer. And the devil does come to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10) and is the father of lies (John 8:44), so even if I don't quite understand the perversion/inversion and hope I never do, I can sort of logically see how people could get trapped into it, as far as satanism goes. I get sin too well with things such as rich food, liking and wanting nice things, and unwise speech.
Amen.
Amen, in addition I will add it's important to see that the understanding of things in this hedonistic world is completely upside down. We're told restraint in our desires is an obstacle to happiness and 'fun' moments only come when we devote ourselves to worldly things. For example the cultural revolution that is the entertainment industry and the pop culture was a clever trick by Satan in this plan to instill in the masses the thought that it is completely normal to waste literal hours pursuing short term interests while doing nothing productive for God.
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This past year has been a time of pretty heavy prayer for me. I think you can get so used to the peace of God that you begin to take it for granted and even forget to attribute it to the holy spirit. These last two months have really reminded me of that as my prayer life has been sort of inconsistent and even half hearted. I haven't been praying like I used to and that weight of heaviness attributed with following the course of this world will begin to set back in. Honestly(for me) it's unbearable, but I think that's, because of experiencing the peace of God for so long(through prayer) and then trying to live without it. I think that's why many of David's prayers were as intense as they were. The natural man doesn't understand the things of The Spirit Of God though so he won't grasp what he is missing.Amen, in addition I will add it's important to see that the understanding of things in this hedonistic world is completely upside down. We're told restraint in our desires is an obstacle to happiness and 'fun' moments only come when we devote ourselves to worldly things. For example the cultural revolution that is the entertainment industry and the pop culture was a clever trick by Satan in this plan to instill in the masses the thought that it is completely normal to waste literal hours pursuing short term interests while doing nothing productive for God.
I think it's interesting to look at a philosopher like Diogenes the Cynic, as an accurate depiction of the mindset suggested by Satan to us in this post-modern society :
Who is Diogenes? (with pictures)
Diogenes was a famous Greek thinker credited with fathering Cynicism. Known for his sharp wit, Diogenes lived in poverty because...
Diogenes was a cosmopolitan, a "citizen of the world" without identity and certainly not one living by any godly norms :
Diogenes: The Crazy Greek Philosopher Plato Called ‘Socrates Gone Mad’!
Diogenes (412 BC- 323 BC) was a Greek philosopher like no other. One of the founders of the cynic philosophy, Diogenes believed that people should live simple lives that reject all natural desires for wealth, power, or fame.
It's no wonder this school of thought is so prevalent in the secular west where moral relativism is the norm and spiritual activities like prayer are considered to be boring and a waste of time.
Interestingly enough Diogenes used to live in Corinth at one point, a place where Paul would teach :
"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God."
1 Corinthians 2:12
When God isn't abiding in us we're under Satan's sphere of influence suggesting and tempting us to go deeper in our sins, there is just no in-between. And when people allow spiritual doors to be opened through lust, alcoholism or drug consumption they can live the tragic experience of a mind imprisoned, oppressed, sometimes outright controlled by spirits that seek to steal, kill and destroy them and their neighbor.
Diogenes was a prideful person, someone full of himself that would answer to Alexander the Great “If I were not Diogenes, I would also wish to be Diogenes.” Yet he was known to live inside a wine cask. The strange behaviors he had sounds a lot like this possessed man the Lord Jesus came to free :
"And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains, because he had often been bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones."
Mark 5:2-5
Our sole protection, strength and hope is to maintain a mind renewed by the Holy Spirit. God gives us our true identity in Christ and when we've learned to spend time in prayer and have truly experienced His presence, it's just not possible to look for another shelter because His name effectively triumphs over all our oppressions and gives true peace and rest.
I disagree somewhat with you RE Christians **always** being joyful, although I agree with your general observations.
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There are definitely times(and even seasons)when it's difficult to find that joy. It was around this time last year where I had to pray as if my life depended on it. It's hard to explain, but there was always a certain amount of time I had to spend in prayer each day to find breakthrough. I think of Daniel and how his breakthrough came after 21 days. It will be different for all of us on any given day I think.