Joie de Vivre A Wretched Man’s Quest To Follow Jesus Christ

I’m back with another installment where I share with you my favorite blog posts in the past week:

Have You Been To The Church Of “O”?

Are you a Christian woman or man who is intently following Oprah Winfrey’s series on The New Earth or even A Course in Miracles? Well, stop!

You’re listening to a woman who “took God out of the box” and thinks that God is “jealous of me” in her own words! Instead of finding out for herself what that word ‘jealous’ means, she goes on a search for something “more than doctrine” then lands herself right smack into the occult teachings of people like Marianne Williamson and Eckhart Tolle.

She’s just full of herself, really. As my wife pointed out, if she could interpret “jealous God” as “God is jealous of me”, we all know just who she is centered on! And now, she’s misleading millions down a slippery slope that ends in a plunge into the bottomless pit called HELL.

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Foreword: I thought I’d give a little background into how this testimony came about, because it simply demonstrates how often God works wonderfully in us and there’s only goodness when we submit to His will.

For some days now, my wife has told me that she hasn’t been able to sleep well because God has prompted her time and again to write her testimony down.

She asked me why, and I told her testimonies were a good way for us to glorify God through telling others what He has made anew in us. As to why God is telling her to do so I am not sure, yet we need trust that the Lord has need for her to do something that has not been revealed, but it’s all good (Romans 8:28).

We had retired rather late to bed last night. Just 15 minutes later, she was out of bed, and the study light came on while her computer whirred to life. When I popped into the study to ask why she wasn’t in bed, she was quite in tears, telling me that God had admonished her for not submitting to His will, right after prayers.

She had been fighting the burden in her heart to write her testimony down, believing wrongly that it’s rather pointless.

It was the first time she had experienced such a prompting, so I gently told her that that’s what God does with me many, many times over — a feeling so heavy in one’s heart that you go on your knees and cry out saying, “Father, Lord, I’ll obey and do it!”

I made coffee for us and stayed up with her while she completed her testimony which we are now sharing with you. May it encourage and bless you as it has us.

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The ’slain in the Spirit’ phenomenon is new and strange to me even though I had spent some time in the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement years ago. I can say for sure that I didn’t witness it before and it was only recently that I’ve been seeing more and more of it being practised in churches.

What is being ’slain in the Spirit’?

That’s when Pentecostal/Charismatic pastors say that they feel God’s anointing and, by touching the forehead of one or even in some extreme cases, a sweep of their arm, people in the congregation fall backwards having being ’slain’ and receive the same power that the pastor has been imbued with.

Sounds a little like those special powers some martial arts practitioners possess in Chinese kung fu movies, doesn’t it?

Now, don’t get me wrong — I am not saying that God cannot do that. Oh, our God can do more than that, but my point is that our God is not a “I’m happy so I wave my wand” God.

There also seems to be no Scriptural basis for this phenomenon from what I have searched so far. Nothing in Acts tells us of the Apostles laying hands on someone to have him ’slain in the Spirit’, nor are there records of how, with a sweep of his hand, Paul or Peter or John or even James did that.

So, if there isn’t any Scriptural basis for this practice, what is it then?

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On April 5, The Moses Code, a film by James Twyman, will be opening in a theater near you.

What is the Moses code anyway?

Well, the trailer claims that “35 hundred years ago, God spoke to Moses and gave him a code that became the foundation of the Law of Attraction and the Laws of Manifestation”.

Huh?! Which part of the Bible says that there was such a code?

Well, remember the words spoken by God to Moses when the latter asked for His name?

Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.”…

– Exodus 3:13-14

Now that you know, watch the trailer and barf:

Slice of Laodicea has more on this movie, including (get this) how there will be many prayer groups all over the world holding prayer vigils in tandem with the release of the movie:

If you don’t read anything else on Slice today, please read this post. Following in the footsteps of The Secret and its teachings on the Law of Attraction, a movie is opening April 5 called“The Moses Code”. Please read about it, watch the trailer, and realize that 1000 prayer groups all over the world are holding prayer vigils like this one (see April 5) as they screen the movie. In the trailer when the actors in the movie come out with the blasphemous “I AM” statements, it sums up perfectly the New Spirituality we’ve been warning about. These are folks who believe that THEY are God. These people are praying for this evolutionary “shift” in the consciousness of the planet. So while these Satanic prayer vigils are going on, what is the evangelical and emerging churches doing? Helping things along by holding hair and fashion shows like Victory Church in Amarillo last Sunday instead of preaching the powerful Word of God; by holding yet another Christian sex event like Mark Driscoll, the foul mouthed preacher boy, who is now holding “Song of Solomon” conferences where he gets to talk about breasts and oral sex and justify it because, it’s in the Bible, after all. You can see Driscoll’s disgusting video right here. (Why is it that when these guys talk about sexuality it always carries a feeling of grime?) While Christian pastors obsess about sexuality and serve as ringmasters at their evangelical circuses, the enemy is holding prayer vigils. When is the last time you heard about one of those in a Christian church?

I am guessing there’s a feeding frenzy now on on all things New Age, with New Age priestess Oprah Winfrey’s recommendations to millions of her viewers to study “A Course in Miracles” by Marianne Williamson, watch “The Secret” DVD and promoting the latest “Get Ready to be Awakened” series of online courses by Eckhart Tolle on one end, and movies such as these on the other.

And I don’t think I exaggerate when I say that I’ve never ever seen occult practices pushed so blatantly in mainstream media! Until now…

Indeed, I am convinced all the more that we are living in the end of days, when such self-love and foolishness shall be prevalent.

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

– 2 Timothy 3:2-7

HT: Slice of Laodicea.

Tis the season for another Harry Potter film, and I feel I must speak my mind to you about the dangers of this series of books and films.

Like many the world over, you probably think that Harry Potter is just harmless, literary fun, and even include it in your children’s literary diet.

I am sorry, but you’re sorely mistaken — Harry Potter is not harmless, literary fun.

It is subtlely introducing you, your children and the millions around the globe that adore the series to the darker sides of the occult through witchcraft! And the movies are Hollywood’s contribution to the glorification of all things occult, a campaign that television networks follow up with relish in between the movie releases.

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