Why do we have so many people on meds for conditions that didn't seem to exist 60 years ago?
I know that the Pharmaceutical industry is just that, an "industry." They are dedicated to making more drugs that people think they need to depend on. There have been a lot of good meds coming from that industry in the past, but now I see far too many people on meds that either don't seem to help or cause worse problems.
I am convinced that the whole matter of "ADHD" and other disorders are invented by these companies to be able to sell more drugs. Most diagnosis of things like ADHD are symptomatic, not based on scientific tests that can be done to determine what is causing it.
I also am convinced that many of the disorders of today are demonic, no drug can touch it.
I have known people who were on depression meds for a couple of months and they don't work anymore, so a new drug has to be introduced. One woman I knew had been on four different depression meds, when one didn't work she had to switch to another. Nothing seemed to work. I believe that's because demons are involved, meds don't work on the spiritual.
The doctors label the disorder of depression as chemical imbalances in the brain that need drugs to correct it and yet the drugs only work short term. If the drugs were to straighten out the chemical imbalance they why do they not continue to work.
I am convinced that demonic activity can cause chemical imbalances in the brain. Recalling the story in the bible about the person who was hunched over who was straightened up when the devils were cast out, helped me to come to this understanding. Demons can and do cause illnesses and distresses, we know this too from the account of Job.
The psychological industry has convinced many marriages to break up to solve the problems in the marriage. This does not solve problems it just splits the people to carry their problems to other people when they remarry.
All of the problems of life, in marriage and depression are answered in the pages of the Bible. My guess is that most of the people on depression meds and those in marriage problems never turned to God for their help. They went to heathens and pagans to give them answers when God was waiting for them to get on their knees before Him to discover His answers.
We do not see as many miracles in this culture as we could be seeing, because there is a lack of faith in God in the land.
Matthew 15:57-58 "…57 And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own household is a prophet without honor.” 58 And He did not do many miracles there, because of their unbelief."
Mark 6:4-6 "…4 Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household.” 5 So He could not perform any miracles there, except to lay His hands on a few of the sick and heal them. 6 And He was amazed at their unbelief. And He went around from village to village, teaching the people.…"
Do you have faith to wait, wait and wait some more in anticipation that God will work. We know it isn't God's will for us to be depressed, so we can expect Him to work on our behalf.
2 Timothy 1:7 "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."
Deuteronomy 31:8 "8 The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”
Psalm 30:11
"11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,"
Psalm 34:17-18
"17 The righteous cry, and the Lord hears
And delivers them out of all their troubles.
18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
And saves those who are crushed in spirit."
Saturday, August 31, 2019
The Pagans and the Heathens Love These Things
If the pagans and heathens love it you can be sure something is wrong with it.
One of the strangest things I have encountered in all my years after becoming born again is the responses I receive from other Christians when asked to participate in certain holidays and I must politely decline.
So many Christians are so indoctrinated that Christmas, Halloween and Easter are Christian holidays that they are astonished and appalled when someone does not think of the holidays as anything in which a believer should participate.
Today in our culture there are those who are attempting to incorporate astrology into Christianity, as well as Hindu practices of Yoga, cultic practices of the ouji board and other paganistic events and rituals that fly in God's face, while defying the Bible which is the same as negating God's commands.
The attempt to incorporate heathen and pagan practices into Christianity began way back at the time of Christ and even before Christ came, there were attempts to appease God on His feasts by doing the feasts with paganism in mind. The devil has been working all along to dilute the Christian experience through deceptive means. He loves to take a pagan practice and make it look alright merely by adding Christ's name to it.
The Jews did this with the Jewish feast days, they treated their feast days the way Christians treat the holidays. The Jews were told to celebrate the feasts but no the way God commanded. Similarly in reverse God never commanded the human holidays we celebrate today and yet many attempt to make them Christian by placing the name of Christ on them anyway.
In the case of the Jewish feast days the Jews practiced those days for God but perverted them to pleasure oriented man centered celebrations, that had little to do with God.
Amos 5:21-23
"21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols."
Once a generation of people have been raised on a tradition it is nearly impossible to convince them of the truth. It is only through their desire to seek Christ that their eyes will be open to all these useless and abominable practices that they can begin to see the truth of all of it.
We have homosexual priest and minsters in churches that claim to be Christian. One day our culture will accept that as for God, just as they have the holidays that claim to be about Him but in fact are tools of the devil.
Just because a person decides to tack God's name on something does not make it pleasing to God. To claim we do something for God only has meaning if it was He Who commanded it.
Isaiah 31:1-2 "1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD. 2 Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.…"
Those who wish to fit in with the world while at the same time want the protection of the Lord are fooling themselves. They think that all they have to do is claim something is from God and God will do their bidding and bless it.
Isaiah 9:13
But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
The people of our day are no different from the people of the past, they all do what is right in their own eyes based on human tradition. They refuse to seek the Lord to see if He is pleased with what they are doing. They refuse to seek the Lord before going through with their own plans. They demand that God bless their plans, expecting blessing even when what they do defies His own word.
Ezekiel 29:16
Egypt will never again be an object of trust for the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity in turning to the Egyptians. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.'"
Egypt is a euphemism for wickeness. Those who went down to Egypt for their help were turning to the pagans for safety rather than God. They were desiring to please the pagans instead of pleasing God.
Where do we as modern Christians go when we are entrenched in the culture? We go to psychologists, we go to rituals and myths to comfort us in our fears, as well as feed our desire for fantasy and pleasure. Most do not think of going to God first for answers.
My only challenge to those who wish to please God is to seek God in all your practices. Diligently seek Him no matter who is watching, no matter who accepts the decision you have made to consult with God on all matters in your life.
I can tell you from experience that most people will not be on board with you in your decision to seek God. They will even attempt to discourage you from doing what you know God has told you to do. The things you will hear from God will be very different sometimes opposite of what the culture expects of you.
When this happens we have to ask ourselves this question: "will I follow God to please Him or will I follow men to be accepted by them."
Galatians 1:10 "10 Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. "
Matthew 6:24
"No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."
1 Thessalonians 2:4
"Instead, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, not in order to please men but God, who examines our hearts."
One last thought, it is quite possible that our Christian witness has been tarnished by negating God to follow the culture.
Acts 4:13
"When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they marveled and took note that these men had been with Jesus."
Psalms 118:8-9
"(8) It is better to take refuge in the LORD Than to trust in man. (9) It is better to take refuge in the LORD Than to trust in princes."
One of the strangest things I have encountered in all my years after becoming born again is the responses I receive from other Christians when asked to participate in certain holidays and I must politely decline.
So many Christians are so indoctrinated that Christmas, Halloween and Easter are Christian holidays that they are astonished and appalled when someone does not think of the holidays as anything in which a believer should participate.
Today in our culture there are those who are attempting to incorporate astrology into Christianity, as well as Hindu practices of Yoga, cultic practices of the ouji board and other paganistic events and rituals that fly in God's face, while defying the Bible which is the same as negating God's commands.
The attempt to incorporate heathen and pagan practices into Christianity began way back at the time of Christ and even before Christ came, there were attempts to appease God on His feasts by doing the feasts with paganism in mind. The devil has been working all along to dilute the Christian experience through deceptive means. He loves to take a pagan practice and make it look alright merely by adding Christ's name to it.
The Jews did this with the Jewish feast days, they treated their feast days the way Christians treat the holidays. The Jews were told to celebrate the feasts but no the way God commanded. Similarly in reverse God never commanded the human holidays we celebrate today and yet many attempt to make them Christian by placing the name of Christ on them anyway.
In the case of the Jewish feast days the Jews practiced those days for God but perverted them to pleasure oriented man centered celebrations, that had little to do with God.
Amos 5:21-23
"21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols."
Once a generation of people have been raised on a tradition it is nearly impossible to convince them of the truth. It is only through their desire to seek Christ that their eyes will be open to all these useless and abominable practices that they can begin to see the truth of all of it.
We have homosexual priest and minsters in churches that claim to be Christian. One day our culture will accept that as for God, just as they have the holidays that claim to be about Him but in fact are tools of the devil.
Just because a person decides to tack God's name on something does not make it pleasing to God. To claim we do something for God only has meaning if it was He Who commanded it.
Isaiah 31:1-2 "1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD. 2 Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.…"
Those who wish to fit in with the world while at the same time want the protection of the Lord are fooling themselves. They think that all they have to do is claim something is from God and God will do their bidding and bless it.
Isaiah 9:13
But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
The people of our day are no different from the people of the past, they all do what is right in their own eyes based on human tradition. They refuse to seek the Lord to see if He is pleased with what they are doing. They refuse to seek the Lord before going through with their own plans. They demand that God bless their plans, expecting blessing even when what they do defies His own word.
Ezekiel 29:16
Egypt will never again be an object of trust for the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity in turning to the Egyptians. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.'"
Egypt is a euphemism for wickeness. Those who went down to Egypt for their help were turning to the pagans for safety rather than God. They were desiring to please the pagans instead of pleasing God.
Where do we as modern Christians go when we are entrenched in the culture? We go to psychologists, we go to rituals and myths to comfort us in our fears, as well as feed our desire for fantasy and pleasure. Most do not think of going to God first for answers.
My only challenge to those who wish to please God is to seek God in all your practices. Diligently seek Him no matter who is watching, no matter who accepts the decision you have made to consult with God on all matters in your life.
I can tell you from experience that most people will not be on board with you in your decision to seek God. They will even attempt to discourage you from doing what you know God has told you to do. The things you will hear from God will be very different sometimes opposite of what the culture expects of you.
When this happens we have to ask ourselves this question: "will I follow God to please Him or will I follow men to be accepted by them."
Galatians 1:10 "10 Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. "
Matthew 6:24
"No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."
1 Thessalonians 2:4
"Instead, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, not in order to please men but God, who examines our hearts."
One last thought, it is quite possible that our Christian witness has been tarnished by negating God to follow the culture.
Acts 4:13
"When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they marveled and took note that these men had been with Jesus."
Psalms 118:8-9
"(8) It is better to take refuge in the LORD Than to trust in man. (9) It is better to take refuge in the LORD Than to trust in princes."
Friday, August 30, 2019
After Repentance Comes Rejoicing
Hebrews 12:11
"11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness."
May all those who are stubborn of heart, resistant to correction and full of their self righteousness be ashamed and repent.
May the blessing of discipline of the Lord descend upon them so that they will see the majesty of God and their need for Christ.
May the Lord be magnified in the repentance as all of heaven rejoices over those who were once lost and rebellious but now have become born again.
Luke 15:7 "7 In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent. "
"11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness."
May all those who are stubborn of heart, resistant to correction and full of their self righteousness be ashamed and repent.
May the blessing of discipline of the Lord descend upon them so that they will see the majesty of God and their need for Christ.
May the Lord be magnified in the repentance as all of heaven rejoices over those who were once lost and rebellious but now have become born again.
Luke 15:7 "7 In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent. "
The Future for the Born Again Believer
I look very much forward to this time. We were made for the light and for love, when those things are absent in a world like this there is a sense of wanting to go where we can find Christ the Light and Goodness.
Trudi Gretsinger Wrote the following:
There is coming a day when no heartaches shall come
No more clouds in the sky no more tears to dim the eye
All is peace forevermore on that happy golden shore
What a day glorious day that will be
There'll be no sorrow there no more burdens to bear
No more sickness no pain no more parting over there
And forever I will be with the One who died for me
What a day glorious day that will be
What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see
And I look upon His face
The One who saved me by His grace
When He takes me by the hand
And leads me through the Promised Land
What a day glorious day that will be......
Trudi Gretsinger Wrote the following:
There is coming a day when no heartaches shall come
No more clouds in the sky no more tears to dim the eye
All is peace forevermore on that happy golden shore
What a day glorious day that will be
There'll be no sorrow there no more burdens to bear
No more sickness no pain no more parting over there
And forever I will be with the One who died for me
What a day glorious day that will be
What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see
And I look upon His face
The One who saved me by His grace
When He takes me by the hand
And leads me through the Promised Land
What a day glorious day that will be......
Those Who Continue to Drift From Truth
Sadly one more preacher that I could have respected for some things, has said things that have deeply disappointed me.
Todd Friel had some very good videos on Christian character and other practical things, so I listened with joy to these things. However I recently discovered that he is in the same camp as John MacArthur on his staunch belief in "Calvinism."
MacArthur and Friel believe the same thing about taking the mark of the beast in the end times. They have defended the belief that one can take the mark of the beast and still be saved. This is antithetical to the Biblical teaching.
Revelation 13:9 " 9 And a third angel followed them, calling out in loud a voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image, and receives its mark on his forehead or on his hand, "
We either believe God or we believe MacArthur and Friel!
Also both of these men hold fast to the five points of Calvinism also antithetical to the teaching of the Bible.
Is it possible that much of this false teaching is also being propagated within the "Masters University" of which John MacArther has been the president?
In these last days we are seeing more preachers fall to false doctrine, especially those who have had a measure of prominence over their lifetime.
Many years ago we heard good things from MacArthur, with little or no mention of Calvinism in his early years, at least not publicly.
It seems that prominent men have been kissed with popularity for so long, they lose their desire for truth and choose their widespread approval over God's truth. I wonder if they stick their fingers in the air to see which way the wind is blowing before declaring what their theology will be.
Calvinism, Reform and many other false doctrines are gaining speed these days as we race toward the end of the church age.
There is no man that any of us can trust in terms of proper doctrine. As soon as we think we find someone, if we listen long enough we will discover something seriously wrong that had been hidden.
When we listen to preachers we really need to do it with the Scriptures in mind first while evaluating the preacher. So many people get it backward, they listen first to the preacher and then interpret the Bible according to that preacher.
We have a much greater teacher than any on earth, that is Jesus Christ Who lives in us. He can teach us every single thing we need to know. If God sends a preacher who brings an understanding we had not heard of, we need to go to the Word of God and evaluate it according to that, with the help of the Holy Spirit.
John 16:13 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."
If you have faith enough to seek the Holy Spirit in all things you will not be fooled by false teachers.
Todd Friel had some very good videos on Christian character and other practical things, so I listened with joy to these things. However I recently discovered that he is in the same camp as John MacArthur on his staunch belief in "Calvinism."
MacArthur and Friel believe the same thing about taking the mark of the beast in the end times. They have defended the belief that one can take the mark of the beast and still be saved. This is antithetical to the Biblical teaching.
Revelation 13:9 " 9 And a third angel followed them, calling out in loud a voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image, and receives its mark on his forehead or on his hand, "
We either believe God or we believe MacArthur and Friel!
Also both of these men hold fast to the five points of Calvinism also antithetical to the teaching of the Bible.
Is it possible that much of this false teaching is also being propagated within the "Masters University" of which John MacArther has been the president?
In these last days we are seeing more preachers fall to false doctrine, especially those who have had a measure of prominence over their lifetime.
Many years ago we heard good things from MacArthur, with little or no mention of Calvinism in his early years, at least not publicly.
It seems that prominent men have been kissed with popularity for so long, they lose their desire for truth and choose their widespread approval over God's truth. I wonder if they stick their fingers in the air to see which way the wind is blowing before declaring what their theology will be.
Calvinism, Reform and many other false doctrines are gaining speed these days as we race toward the end of the church age.
There is no man that any of us can trust in terms of proper doctrine. As soon as we think we find someone, if we listen long enough we will discover something seriously wrong that had been hidden.
When we listen to preachers we really need to do it with the Scriptures in mind first while evaluating the preacher. So many people get it backward, they listen first to the preacher and then interpret the Bible according to that preacher.
We have a much greater teacher than any on earth, that is Jesus Christ Who lives in us. He can teach us every single thing we need to know. If God sends a preacher who brings an understanding we had not heard of, we need to go to the Word of God and evaluate it according to that, with the help of the Holy Spirit.
John 16:13 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."
If you have faith enough to seek the Holy Spirit in all things you will not be fooled by false teachers.
Love Your God to the Last Breath (David Wilkerson)
Love Your God to the Last Breath (David Wilkerson)
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