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How can a Christian gain Spirituality – is blind faith enough?
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How can Christians gain Spirituality, is blind faith sufficient?
Written by Joseph Ho, 24th July 2009
Many Christians presumed that having faith is enough for one to become a true Christian. Does faith comes by hearing only? No it does not. It comes by hearing and acting on what you hear. If you don’t check out what you hear is truly from God; how can you act without testing the spirit? Faith comes by hearing is only half truth. Faith without deeds or action is dead as you can find this in the book of James. Read James 2:26.
James 2:26
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Many Christians think they have faith, but when any serious crisis arrives they are lost for protection. They become sitting ducks left in the open and very soon they found that they don’t have the true protection from God. How can this be possible, they say? Well, why is this not possible; since they have not tested or even confirmed that God is truly protecting them at all. They have no prior trials and no victory to rely on, and they presume that God is always there to take care of them. Most Christians live in the world of fantasy and presumption. I saw a lot of this kind of Christians who think that scriptures apply to them when they quote it. They forgot that those who are not considered sons and daughters of God have no claim to the spiritual power of God’s Kingdom. The sons of Sheba tried to cast demons out of a man and were beaten because they were not true Apostles of Jesus Christ, they tried to use Jesus’ name in vain.
If they ever bother to read the bible carefully, they will discover that God never once said as long as you have faith in me I will save you. No, God did not say anything like that, but God said many times, if you listen to me and obey my commandments, I will save you and protect you. Yes, this God did said many times. But the sad thing is he said this in the Old Testament, and many now claim that the Old Testament is no longer valid. With this believe they nullify half the truth found in the bible.
The Old Testament shows the character of God and how men and God communicates, so if you shut this book out you are as good as being deaf in the ways of the Lord our God. God speaks to his chosen ones many times and in many ways in the Old Testaments and he showed us a way to connect with him. The Old Testament is our master in Godly ways it trains us for maturity and brings us into God’s grace in the New Testament so we have to learn from God starting with the Old Testament.
It was from this Old Testament that I began to learn how to communicate with the Lord our God. When I was in deep crisis, I searched and read scriptures for hours hoping that God would speak to me. One day by the grace and mercy of the Lord God, the scripture from Jeremiah 6:16 spoke to me like a quicken word and I took the meaning and meditate it day and night and then I discover that God was actually telling me to read the ancient books in the Old Testament.
Jeremiah 6:16 (New International Version)
16 This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.”
The Lord did direct me to look at the ancient way which I took to mean the Old Testaments, and to seek the good way and then to walk in it, not to just hear it but to walk in it. So I decided to find out how the ancient people communicate with God and then I decide to do what it says which means walk in it. Once I decided to do this God began to speak to me in those ways. And I began to get reply and response to my question from God in ways no intelligent people could ever discover without God’s revelation. Jesus said:
John 6:63
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
Jesus said, “If you love me do what I say, if you love me practice what I teach.” The word of God is life and it can speak to us because it is a spiritual life force that can read our minds and intention. The bible says the word of God is like a double-edged sword and it cuts into the dividing marrow and even the deep thoughts of men.
How can a Christian gain Spirituality?
You need to soak in the spiritual things in order to gain spirituality. You need to drink the spiritual water and eat the flesh of Jesus himself who is the Word of God. Eat means to chew and to swallow and to absorb into your body mind and soul; to read and to do. This is what I did consistently for 3 years:
I read the bible for at least 2 hours per day. I did this for 3 years none stop until I began to have dreams about future events. I began to be thirsty for the ways of God and bought many books on topics about God and how he speaks to people. I soak in the word of God like Esther soak in perfume or the fragrance of the Holy Spirit. I also bought books on how the Holy Spirit baptized a person, and found out how to invite the Spirit into my body. I went to different churches to learn the different things like, prophecy, healing, faith word, Charismatic, Anglicans, Baptist, Independent, Catholics, Assembly of Gods, Presbyterians, Mennonites, Apostolic, Evangelical, Grace Teachings….. even the fanatics for God and others. I learnt that all of them have only certain truth not full truth. My mind began to understand things which I could never understand in the natural realm of the human mind and logic. I began to listen to Godly music for hours and sing with the lyrics. Then I got delivered from much spiritual bondages and demonic possession. Later, I got baptized by the Holy Spirit. It was like something in the air came into my body and I knew I was wearing an invisible coat of righteousness, God given righteousness. Unless you wear the white robe you can never get to heaven, and the Holy Spirit is the white robe, the white dove-like being, the guarantee of our salvation. Those approved by God will wear this Robe spiritually, like Joseph in Genesis did. I prayed constantly consistently and fervently for answers and God send me wisdom and guided me to different places at different time to hear things which no one would desire to hear. I listened to the Spirit and not men. I was afraid that the voice may not be from God, but I overcame this fear and decided to follow and check out the leading by my actions and thank God it was very good indeed. I began to move by the Spirit’s leading and grew in understanding very quickly. Spirit-led learning is always the best, but God will also use men to teach us as well. However, we are not to follow them forever, we are to follow God. They are but servants sent by God to lead and feed us when we need God’s counsel.
Here are some other pointers for your understanding:
A. What your teachers are, you will become like them, so be careful who you listen to.
Everyone has some bias and not fully delivered soul and they all will do things to preserve themselves and gain in popularity and human approval not God’s approval though. The pressures of this world is real and not something we can easily ignore, like the monthly bills and overheads are debts we need to pay so it’s a real source and burden. If you put your trust in men, they will always disappoint you, for God said “Cursed is the man who trusts in men, but blessed is the man who trusts in God”. Find a good vine, a good source of spiritual teachings and stay there until you gain the impartation of whatever that source of vine may give. Then move to another vine for other areas of impartation. Yes, you have to move and it’s not a sin to want to learn more about God from different sources. You have to go where the truths are and so you have to move, and its not church hopping and neither are you betraying your church because God is everywhere in all the churches. In my father’s house there are many mansions, so God has many anointed churches and you have to go there to get the spiritual food. So staying in one place will only bring a delay in entering the promise land. When Moses left Egypt, he took the people and moved from places to places, each place has a name and a secret meaning and we are to follow this model before we can enter the promise land. God gave us a way to follow yet many did not know this and not many preachers teach this as well; because it’s not good for church growth and the financial seeding of tithes. No man is an island and no one man has all the wisdom except Jesus who is the Messiah and has access to the Spirit without limits. Be absolutely shameless when you pursue the truth and God’s presence like the ones who lap like a dog during the time of Gideon when God chose those 300 people. Lapping like a dog symbolizes thirst for water and yet they did not bother about their dignity but were truly thirsty so they focused on drinking and not on their own person behavior in the eyes of others.
So if you do those things which I mention, you will be able to gain spirituality in due time. Spiritual discernment and anointing is given by the Lord Jesus himself and no man can give that to you unless they are called to give the gifts. Solomon was approached by God and its God who gave him wisdom not man.
True spiritual men are few, so don’t be fooled, as many are imposters. Only the remnants are the chosen ones and they don’t advertise themselves, only God promotes them. Some pastors or preachers cannot even hear from God and they teach what they have learnt themselves from the letter without the Spirit. These are theologians expounding the word of God for salary, they don’t serve the truth; they do the work as a professional. And if your teachers can not hear from God, what kind of person do you think they are? They are men of the letter without the Spirit and so they are deaf and blind guides who have no light and cannot bring the Manna to feed you. They feed you yesterday’s bread not fresh but old stale bread without the life giving power to bring salvation and victory into your life. Sometimes they will explain away the scriptures from the imagination of their mind, reading meanings into the words without the guidance of the Holy Spirit, thereby preaching heresy and demonic doctrines of Balaam.
Now, true spirituality is being able to hear from God, talk to God directly and move according to what God commands. I sincerely prayed that all of you who happens to read this article be shaken and awaken to the fullness and power of a living God who speaks and guides his people like a true shepherd of his flocks. May you all experience what I have experienced and if you should want to know more about the deep things of God; come check out my website at www.kingscepter.com or send me an email at prophet3333@yahoo.com. The time is short and the best godly vision is to be able to hear from the one true God, so be imbued with the zeal and the thirst for the real thing. And the real thing is being able to hear from God.
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Joseph Ho is an engineer by training, he is also a former member of FGBMI and CBMC. Presently, he is the President of Thy Scepter, a spirit led Christian Business owner Society. He has also authored 2 books, one of which is “My Sheep Hear My Voice” and is available at www.kingscepter.com.
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