Showing posts with label contemplative prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contemplative prayer. Show all posts

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Israel's Deliverance from Egypt

Israel's Deliverance From Egypt


Have you ever gotten out of bondage and didn't feel normal?  If you've been in bondage for so long, then when you get free, it is a hard reality.  How about those who have been married in a very mentally abusive relationship?  Why is that!

Exodus 16

Egypt represents the flesh and Israel was delivered from Egypt and traveled in the desert between Elim and Sinai called The Wilderness of Sin.

During that time, the Israelites murmured and complained because of the need for necessities, food, and water.

God did many miracles in Egypt through Moses and continued to do miracles to demonstrate God's power, goodness, and provision.

Many times, when a person has been in bondage, like Israel being slaves in Egypt, it is familiar and comfortable.  Our flesh prefers the old instead of the new thing (the promised land) God wants to produce. The reality, the enemy will try to do anything to get you to go back to your bondage. 

Have you ever gotten free from bondage, and it should feel good but feel strange at first?  The flesh wants to take you back to bondage because it is familiar and comfortable.  One is a lack of trust in God to meet you when there is uncertainty.

God's way is to go forward and trust Him in the land of uncertainty.

What do you do during this time? 

1.  Praise him for your freedom
2.  Declare and decree you are free and not going back
3.  Draw the line in the sand to determine to go forward into the wilderness for God to burn away more of the flesh
4.  Stand on the promises of God and fight for your freedom
5.  Pray over yourself and call forth your callings and giftings
6.  Don't look back in the land of regrets and sadness but move forward into the new land (spiritually) with gladness.  When you think of the past, take the time to renounce those thoughts according to 2 Cor. 10:5.

It is a time to renew the mind to burn away more of the flesh and break strongholds of thinking and move into our new inheritance - the Promise Land.  The enemy will throw thoughts of remembrance but don't play into them.  Remember God has your best interest.


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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

What is Reiki - move to wix

Exposing the Roots of Reiki

Reiki and Christianity


Let's look at Reiki and Christianity comparison. Reiki is very spiritual and it does work, but is not divine, not of Jesus, and not of God (John 14;7).

Jesus and Reiki


Question: What do you know about Jesus and Reiki?
Response: It's a popular but occult holistic health practice that clashes with Christianity -- another illustration of the master-deceiver's masquerade as "an angel of light."

Reiki History  


Reiki is nothing more than a part of the Buddha religion and can be put under the general category of the New Age movement. You cannot say you practicing a Christian form of Reiki. As you can see from the information that follows, reiki is permeated with Eastern mysticism and new-age jargon. It has nothing to do with the biblical gift of discernment.
What is Reiki

Please note that the following is the belief system of those practicing reiki and not mine. 
Reiki is the Japanese name for the universal life force, also known as Ki or Chi, the supposed subtle energy that enlivens all beings. The word is composed of two Japanese characters. Rei can translated as ‘universe.” Ki means life-energy or light in the sense of information. The two characters express the coming together of divine force and the human being, or the unification of body and soul.”


How Did Reiki Come Into Existence? Reik Origin

A Japanese Buddhist, Dr. Mikau Usui, discovered Reiki. He had fasted for 21 days on Mount Kurama in 1914. During this period, he experienced a satori, a realization of enlightenment. He describes his discovery as follows: “When I fasted I touched an intense energy and in a mysterious manner I was inspired (I received the reiki energy). As in a coincidence, it became clear that I had been given the spiritual art of healing.”

For Reiki to work it must be attuned. This is a short ceremony in which the reiki master/teacher acts as a channel to lift up a person’s spiritual frequency, which supposedly opens one up to the universal life energy. During this process something magical is happening on the spiritual, non-physical plane. The process is similar to the Tibetan Buddhist empowerment practice.

The Reiki energy enters the body of the master/teacher at the charka at the base of the skull, just above the neck. Through this charka the divine cosmic energy streams through and connects with our physical existence. A connecting between heaven and earth is made through emerald green colored energy. As a result the first etheric layer of both the initiator and the one who gets initiated become one. This first etheric layer is our eggshell; it can be seen as a thin grey line against a white background. Opening our eggshell means that you truly open up for the other person, no longer holding back or defending yourself, or regarding yourself as a separate being. During this process the reiki energy rolls in like waves from the skull charka of the master into both auric fields.

The universal life energy first enters the energy system of the healer who passes in on, usually with the hands, to the healee. In the physical body this energy travels through the brains and nervous system. In our energetical bodies it travels through the charkas, meridians and the central channel along the spine.

It is unknown what the origins, total quantity and ways of workings of the life-energy are. It cannot be defined more clearly than stating that it comes from Source, god/goodness, spirit, or the Force. It is an important connection with divinity.

In order to do reiki at its highest level you must go through three levels so that you can reach the highest level of vibration.

The healing method consists of meditation techniques, breathing exercises, spiritual cleansing, the reciting of spiritual poetry, the reiki principles, regular empowerments which gradually opened up the students for reiki (later on the attunements were introduced), hands on healing with several techniques, distance healing, use of breath and the eyes in healing, and the use of mantras and symbols in activating reiki.

Most of the time reiki will be experienced as warmth, as if a blanket of loving attention is put over you. But other sensations like coldness, tinkling, prickling, throbbing, shivering, emotional release, or memories popping up may happen.

Reiki has changed over the years as masters have channeled information from archangels, ascended masters or other high spiritual beings. These masters also claim to be attuned to stars and planets.

"Reiki is something that is very mis-stated, and misunderstood, by those outside of the Reiki circle. Having been in it, I can tell you everything you need to know. I will tell you right up front that it was a hard one to shake, that it was VERY real and beneficial, but that it is decidedly non-Christian.

Symptoms from Reiki

"It is all about what you feel in your hands, what you feel in your spirit, what the client feels in their body/emotions/spirit. In that regard it is very very real. My hands get hot, I hit a place of extreme peace and quiet, I heal people who feel a tingle or hot spot or whatever. Their headache, menstrual cramps, emotional distress, bruises, whatever, goes away. But is God glorified? No way. Is self glorified? Yes. "If it is so good and right, why do practitioners go on to other things once they hit Master level? The teacher who taught me was going on to [mystical] acupuncture and other new Reiki teachings. Always something else, something new, something you NEED to be a true master. Sound familiar? It is like everything else in this world, but Christ. There is no lasting peace, no connection with the universe, there is a big void in your soul that is not going away. WE ALL NEED CHRIST! I told my wife when she questioned my stopping in my search for peace once I found Christ (she had followed my years of searching through New Age theologies, etc) that Jesus Christ filled the hole. All the puzzle pieces fell into place and everything suddenly made sense. For a long time after that I tried to make Reiki fit into Christianity but it didn't. I prayed a lot about it. God firmly and solidly showed me in Scripture how it couldn't work. The two major things against it, regardless of how well it works, are 1) it does not point anyone to Christ and in facts points people away from a single triune God, and 2) it is no different than all the pagan rituals in the Old Testament that would have people pray to the rain god or fertility god, etc. They must have worked or people wouldn't have kept praying to them, and God's people wouldn't have been attracted to them. But either way it isn't what GOD has asked us to do. Everything we need is in Him. We can pray for any healing we need."

The people who are practicing reiki, are in general not aware that they are calling upon reiki-spirits when sending reiki or initiating others.


Do you need deliverance from Reiki? 

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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Rob Bell a Heretic

Rob Bell Preaches Universalism!

ROB BELL was once the pastor of a megachurch in Grand Rapids, Michigan, , which cast doubt on the idea of hell as a place of eternal conscious punishment. He and many others to the denial of the gospel itself, and a reason to warn their flocks off his work.

Franklin Graham




Franklin Graham: Rob Bell Is A "False Teacher" & A "Heretic"



Rob Bell Exposed




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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Ekstasis New Age Worship - A New Type of Worship

"Ekstasis" Worship Dancing of Shamanism, Kundalini Yoga, Mystical Experiences, and Club Mysterio


Today’s church is becoming a modern New Age Supermarket where pleasurable and hedonistic “god experiences” are handed out like fresh fruit. They say we must examine the fruit- it is fine as long as it is good. Well, yes, I agree the fruit is good. If Sin were not pleasurable, it would not tempt us. It is good to look at, and it is good to hold, but should you be unfortunate enough to eat this New Age fruit- it will kill you.

Watch video to learn the truth of ekstasis New Age Worship is not from God




Ekstasis is a Greek word for moving beyond oneself. Since time began, humans have realized our ability to have sensations that transcend our mundane experience - to experience a journey to enhanced states of consciousness and find freedom from the perceived constraints of time and space…… It is a chance to reclaim our shamanic heritage of healing through transformational, cathartic experiences. To dance our way into a trance, moving beyond ourselves to connect with the divine source and bring back the vision of a fuller, more potent existence.

It is a well-established fact that many of the Eastern and esoteric religions employ the techniques of trance dancing. The hypnotic sounds and movements elevate dancers into ecstatic, altered states of consciousness. While they are in these altered states of consciousness, they are most open to suggestion, mind control, seduction by deceiving spirits, and spontaneous Kundalini awakenings. However, do not be deceived; there is no such thing as “Christian” trance dancing.


Deut 12:29 When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
Deut 12:30 Beware that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?'
Deut 12:31 "You shall not behave thus toward the LORD your God, for every abominable act which the LORD hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
Deut 12:32 "Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.
Deut 13:1 "If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,
Deut 13:2 and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, 'Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,'
Deut 13:3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you to find out if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deut 13:4 "You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.
Deut 13:5 "But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has counseled rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to seduce you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from among you.
Deut 13:6 "If your brother, your mother's son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods' (whom neither you nor your fathers have known,
Deut 13:7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end),
Deut 13:8 you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him.
Deut 13:9 "But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Deut 13:10 "So you shall stone him to death because he has sought to seduce you from the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Deut 13:11 "Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.


Ezek 22:26 "Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

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