"All things are clean to those who are clean". "All things are lawful, but not all things are beneficial". "Subject the Spirit within you". Those are a few scriptural quotes that apply to why I prefer to stay grounded. When caught up in Spirit, it is like being intoxicated. Nothing feels dirty, you know there is a place, a season for everything and you've learned not to be judgemental about anything presented to you. You are open-minded and your soul is open to all things. You fear nothing.
But I noticed something: that is exactly when we must be most alert. Any kind of spirit can be entering you as Holy Spirit leaves. Before it's effects wear off, lies can be introduced. I see it even in "New Testament" writings. I was given to discern exactly where Holy Spirit left off and Satan entered. Another truth I failed to utter until now for fear of it being apostacy. It is why I only write while full of Spirit rather than speak or act. This year I am even learning to stay grounded while writing, "subjecting the Spirit" within me.
It is not just while full of Spirit that spirits try to influence by projecting thoughts, this is true. I can be perfectly grounded and under assault so subtly it is as if the thoughts are my own.
I have noticed something different coming to life within me, coming true for me, though. The more I apply these practices of staying as gronded as possible and using discernment given me, the more I am filled with Spirit not even knowing it. In other words, it becomes such a part of my normal, every day, grounded experience that I do not even realize how full of Spirit I am. I stand out without seeing it myself. Just as a drinker will become immune to smaller amounts of alcohol, it takes more and more Spirit for me to even notice I have been "drinking".
I have seen the results of not being discerning and staying grounded and they frightened me. Not just stupid mistakes I have made in my life, but the big ones that destroy, taking human life. Spirit comes to some and they take it literally when told to kill someone in them. Instead of knowing it means to kill their parent's qualities within them, they literally kill a parent. When asked why, they reply that God told them to. Then there is the channelor of Spirit's messege, who in the end of that messege is misled into being inspired to lead you into a sexual relationship. Some take your money and truly feel God instructs them to. "You received freely, give freely" is His word on that matter. Then there is the whole Oneness thing that troubled me. I have felt the things they have described experiencing, but find their assertions of what it means unsettling. My experience of Oneness is more what the man called Jesus experienced. Only God Himself watching over me saved me from that trap; the ecstacy and promise of Godship, extinction of individuality to perpetually exist in the pure joyous rapture of oneness with a spirit. It's just demons leading off the consciousness long enough that the body dies. notice they can perform miracles but continue to age and die. It's more like self-induced coma. Without life support, death is the result. death everlasting. They have what they wanted, though. They went back into the melting pot of life. They just aren't experiencing nirvana. their consciousness is no longer conscious.
And that is how I learned not to go after teachers. That and the fact that the moment I began excelling at their teachings and thus challenging themselves, they always turned on me. I was insecure and over sensative then and took it personally, thinking the fault lie with me. but now I know different. I glean from what I can find and what is presented, for Satan can't snag you if there isn't a grain of truth in his lie somewhere. And so the liars become a tool as well. They just become another place to dig up treasure. The same with accusers; they play on an insecurity, a lie I tell about myself to myself, a misunderstanding of myself. If I do not react defensively, if I observe what is being implicated, I can root out an evil, a lie that has been existing in me. Even I have been convinced my intentions have been evil and believed it for years, only to discover when light is shined on it, it is not true. My intentions were never evil. My actions and choices not faulty. I was just insecure because I did what the world around me would not do or had not wanted. "They say bad is good and good is bad", right?!
So, there you have it. Here, in this blog, is my further attempt at staying grounded. My attempt to write only what comes clearly, precisely and is simple.
Amen
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