So you think you worship God???
Sunday, 13. July 2008, 11:56:54
Wanna know if you do ?...
Warning; reading futher on may demage your peace of mind forever
YOU;
Attend Sunday services every sunday
Dress nicely to attend a Sunday service
Are a member of a church
Raise hands in a church meeting or whatever all the others do
Give money to your church, offerings and tith
Obey the pastor
Attend prayer meetings
Evangelise the unreached
Give money to mission
Dress Christian like
are not critical to any leader by your words( only in your thinking)
Obey your husband no matter what( as a wife)
Say “God bless you”,”I will pray for you”,” God be with you “or “hallelujah”
Read the bible
Train your kids to obey you and to be friendly to everyone
Always smile and keep your problems hidden from others.
As a woman – know that you are not to preach to men
As a man – know that you are not to be too friendly to a woman- you keep your distance
Are not angry
Strive to be more like Jesus in everything that you do
Do not listen to unchristian music
Sing worship songs
Pray in tongues- to keep you from sinning.
Do not wear to much makeup,or pierce your ears more than once
Do not use money on yourself to show how much you are giving to Gods work… or use all your money on yourself to show off how blessed you are.
This list is taken from the “normal” life of a christian, but do you know that this list is manmade ? none of these things is mentioned in the law of God, none of these things is needed in your relationship with GOD, so what is this then, why do YOU live by these rules ?
Is this worship of God or is all this done in vain ?
What does God say about all this?
“These people draw near to me with their mouth ,and honor me with their lips, but their heart is FAR AWAY from me, and in vain they worship me- teaching as doctrines the commandments of men…” Matt 15 8
Any doctrines made up of manmade commandments is worship in vain- God said so, not I:
Why then do people need these manmade rules- because;” their HEART is far away from me”, Jesus said. I believe that to be true, because when your heart leave God , your heart is filled with your own ways . proverbs 14,14 And a part of our own ways- is homemade commandments. As Humans we make up a religion every time we leave GOD in our hearts, because we need a substitute for the relationship that got lost.
What then are the commandments of God , the doctrine of GOD?
“ Teacher what shall I DO to inherit eternal life? Jesus said to him; “ what is written in your law? What is your reading of it?so he answered and said“ you shal LOVE the Lord thy God…
With all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbour as yourself” Jesus said to Him “ You have answered rightly. DO THIS and you shall live!” luk 10 25
Compare this what Jesus is saying here with the above list and you will understand that the manmade list has nothing to do with Gods law of LOVE.
Loving God with your soul – by daily sharing your thoughts,feelings and will with HIM
Loving God with your heart/spirit- by giving your self to Him,for His spirit to dwell in you
Loving God with your strength- obeying HIS voice and leading of your life- with all the strength that you have been given by God.
Loving god with all your mind- let your thought be filled with HIM,searching for Him to know HIM .
Loving your neighbour as yourself.
This is all the commandments of God- in these few sentences 100 of details lie hidden in the life that you will live with God,but there is no need for you to know anything more,because to LOVE God is the start of your life with HIM and the end, and everything in between. You will not have more time left in this life than to obey this commandment
Are you ready to obey Jesus or do you want your religion more than Him ?
You have to answer because the manmade commandments list do not give you any eternal life- in vain you do all those things- you are therefore free to end all these activites to obey GOD, receive Him and love HIM. To leave these commandments is just as hard for you as for any muslim or hindu to leave His or her religion. Therefore I will show you more about what Gods words says about true worship, and know that what he desire is for your heart to turn to HIM, not for you to get a new” what to do list” Know again that everyone that I added to this list of manmade commandments have nothing to do with Gods will or Gods commandments- so PLEASE stop following these rules-wake up to what GOD is saying to you. Jesus is saying ; return to me, to my heart, to listen to MY voice to learn from me- you were created by me and for me, eternal life is in your relationship with me,since I am that life, the covenant is about us being in a relationship with each other day after day-as you live to love me and I live to love you”
Colossians 1. 13-19
“He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation, for BY HIM all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him, and He is before all things and in Him all things consist, and He is the head of the body, the assembly….”
I am created by HIM and for HIM- and so are you! Choose today if you want to continue to live by and fill your life with manmade commandments, or do you want to turn back to Gods heart and find your home there ? Think about how much time and energy you will have to discover and know HIM, when you stop doing all of those things on my list ! Leave your religion- eternal life is in KNOWING Jesus- in a deep relationship with HIM:
John 8. Jesu was speaking to some Jews who “ believed” him ( mentally)but they had not received HIM- satan was still their LORD.
Do you believe in Him as in believing in a story – that it is true ? then satan is still your father
Do you sacrifice your time and money to the church-because the pastor said that this will bring gods blessing on you ? cursed you will be “ cursed is everyone that do not LOVE the Lord Jesus” but instead love the pastor and obey HIM.
Do you sing worship songs un Sundays- even raising hands,but in your heart you think about the next meal,your bills or some other problem- in vain you raised those hands and sang those songs- in would have been better if you just stayed home and watched tv.
Do you smile every time you meet a Christian and hide your problems- satan is still your father,because you are a liar as he is. God desires truth in your heart and if you are honest with God you will be honest with people too.
Do you strive to be more like Jesus? Why- you know that you just feel bad or if you would sucseed- you would feel Good and be proud about it, but anyway, God would oppose you, because Jesus came to heal the sick and he walk pass those who are well and not in need of HIM.
Jeremiah 2.31, “ why do my people say;” we are Lords, we will come no more to you…”. Yes that’s what you think you are if you think that you may work on yourself to be like HIM. You can not create anything – so why try? Pride is all that it is ? When you are in Love with Jesus- you will become one with Him in heart and soul, which will change your behaviour too, but that behaviour will not be your doing, you will not think about it at all- because all you see and think about is your GOD and your desire is for HIM, not your own perfection.
Why are Christians so conserned with obedience to pastors, husbands or parents? Is it just because they have a need of controlling people – make them do what they themselves want? Just as the devil want to capture us into being HIS slave. Are you in need of controlling a human ?- your father is the devil. God Himself talks about freedom. Jesus said- if you know me- as the truth- I will sett you free. He did not say – I will enslave you- make you obey me.
God desire love, and in love there is no “ do as I say or….” Yes in disobeying the judgements of God we do face consequences, because his jugdements are for our good,and when we chose to not live by them- we suffer evil- sure, but God never desire us to live by His laws as slaves. Anything that has to do with being a slave is FAR away from the thought of God for me or you. In love for Him I may say; I want to be your slave- but that is out of love and a desire to be only HIS. It is in obeying His laws of Loving Him, that those desires awakens- the desire to give my whole life in service for HIM ( not for my church,pastor,husband,kids )
Do you run to prayer meetings? Why? You think that your prayer will move the hands of GOD? You think that by being in a group there will be more “power” present and God will give you what you work so hard in prayer to get? No! He will not- in vain you weary yourself out. God will never honor the work of self. You are still your own LORD and the devil is therefore your Father- since he will never bow to GODS will
God desires your love for HIM to be given HIM in secret- only you and HIM:
Prayer meetings is an human invention- “as a group we are stronger “ kind of thinking- just as the people building that great tower in babel was thinking- did God bless that “ group work” ? no he destroyed what they wanted to build. God never blesses any “ we will get what we pray for,because we are many people praying” He will rather bless a little one sharing his/her heart with HIM in a lonely place” Prayer is not to get what you want – prayer is a intimate way of communicating with the love of your heart- your creator. How can you tell Him about your love for Him,while a lot of others are listening? You will just be superficial- and God hates that. There is no point of praying for every problem in the world eighter- because God says that problems will grow worse ( and you pray against His will if you pray for problems to end) Thank God for every difficult thing in your life- He might have sent it to you to awaken you – to save your soul.
Gods temple- your heart is to be a place for prayer for all nations- for people every where to come to know GOD in a intimate way, as you have come to know HIM ( if you have so, you would long for Gods heart to be joined to every person on this earth)
So you pray in tongues? Even people from new age clubs do so. Keep your tongue prayer to yourself, and do not pray in tongues if Gods spirit is not moving you to do so. When He does YOU will be in it with all your heart. If you just pray to do your little rutine- you are opening your heart to the door to hell. I have been listening to prayer meetings where everyone was praying loud in tongues and chills from hell has been all that I did sense from those meetings- I left horrified.
Why evangelise/ give money to mission??? Save your money for a new car instead—if your heart is not with GOD. God do not want your money- He wants your heart. Satan is stealing your money from you by making you give money to” feel better” his plans is for your destruction,so ofcourse he makes you give away everything you have for “your church” promising you a ticket to heaven or the blessing of the pastor who will “take good care of you” lies! Do not believe it!
So you dress right, and do not wear make up or pierce your ears, but inside your heart you envy everyone who does- God is pleased? NO! he is not- He desire your honesty in heart and life. If you stay away from using makeup or pierce your ears ,but keep your heart away from GOD- you might as well pierce your ears a hundred times- its all in vain anyway.
You may dress as grey and boring as you like,but if your heart is not in love with your GOD- JESUS- , be a prostitute instead, your boring lifestyle is anyway in vain, you are just deceived into thinking that this pleases GOD. If your heart was with HIM, and you did dress in grey colors for HIM- then he would be pleased,as He is pleased with anything that we do , just because our hearts and soul desire to bless His heart and soul
So you stay with your wife for 30 years even if you daily think about other women, and God should be pleased ? no, he is not.By pretending to love someone but in reality denying it- you make your self a liar. God desire truth in your heart- does He know about those women that you love? Have you told Him about them? Does he know about your thoughts- your passions?
No- then you do not love GOD with your soul and heart- repent and tell HIM. You are no better than those who change women every weekend- God judge you the same way- He sees no difference between you and them. You are just deceived to think that you are any better,because you have not divorced your wife “on the paper”
A good man according to GOD …” is satisfied from above. Prov. 14 14
It is not those deeds that make you GOOD- those deeds only make you proud or feel like a failure, it is to stay with God with your heart that makes you a “good man” and you will be satisfied from above.
So women are not to preach to men? Why not- it must be because men do not want to listen to them, being to proud for that, after all they are just play mates ,cooks or baby sitters,what words of wisdom could they possible have ??Jesus Himself spoke to a woman at a well,and this woman went to all the men in the town and they went to Jesus because of what she said. Jesus met a woman after His resurection and said to her;” GO! And tell my brothers….” It also says that many women followed Jesus and served Him. Some were even His close friends- He was not afraid of them,and He sent them to preach to men. God oppose the proud,so I believe that God desire to send a lot of women preachers to men- to expose their proud thinking. If God is your Father you would love for Him to expose for you your own pride, and give you a humble heart towards Him and receive whoever He sends your way.
Do you think that by being a member of a church you are protected some how from satan ?
If you do you are deceived by your pastor to think so- because he has said so. Why are anyone a member of anything?- to have some benefits and to share in the expenses for the fun- right?
As a member the pastor receives money from the state to “run” the church , so to get more money He needs more members- like a business. To tell you of some sort of protection in return is a way of manipulating you. What you actually get in return is a lot of evenings spent in volentary work on a building of some sort ( to save money) lots of meetings that you “have” to attend. What fun is involved in this club? Not much really. The same show happens every Sunday, the prayer meeting have no point,the cell group has a lot of annoing people- so where is the point ?? no where, but in this religion, you do not ask this question- you just continue week after week- right ? NO! leave while you still can( before you are dull and grey headed) join a sport club instead and have some excitement in life- LIFE is best lived.
You will discover that the only “protection” you ever need is to make sure that your heart stays with God every day. In Him is life, so when You enjoy His relationship – you have life!
Listen to “non worship” songs and feeling bad? Why? I have learned a lot about Gods passion for me, by listening to non Christian love songs. I do not find this passion in most of chrstian songs,because the song writer do not love God with his whole soul, but only write nice songs.
To sing “nice songs “ in a meeting is a vaste of time people- God do not enjoy lip services- the sacrifice of your lip is not plesant to HIM- if your heart is not totally and madly in love with HIM. If you are then you will make up your own words to sing to HIM- a home made love song- that kind of song he would greatly desire from you- try that. Songs are made to be love songs from your heart- nothing less.
HEART- HEART- HEART !!!!!!! TURN your heart and soul back to GOD.
Whatever I say or write has to do with heart- sorry,but that’s all that matters to me,because that’s all that’s matters to the God I love.
your thought,your feelings your desires- let HIM know them. And look for HIS- as you do you start on a new yourney with HIM that will open up the bible – it will become so alive for you. Living water will fill your being, loving GOD will turn into a passion for HIM that will grow stronger and stronger day by day
I had many scriptures from the bible for you to read,but I think I just write down Jeremiah to you, the book where you might find all this good stuff from Gods heart, and if you truly want to turn back to HIM, I am sure you will look up this book and READ with your heart as well as your mind, and turn back to the creator JESUS- our GOD
You were created by HIM and for HIM- nothing more and nothing less.
Anita


