Hidden Works of Darkness: Spiritually Cleansing Your Home

Skryté pôsobenie temnoty: Duchovné vyčistenie príbytku

by Betty Miller with Janice Fritch

“Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.”  Deuteronomy 11:26-28

Have you ever wondered how it is that some Christians can seem to have more than their fair share of problems in life?  We often hear prayer requests describing one problem after another attacking Christians left and right.  They express how they feel like God has forsaken them and they feel like they are cursed.  Could they be right?  In order for us to determine whether we have stepped out of the will of God, we need to examine our lives to see if there is any place that we have been mislead from God’s ways.

Zamysleli ste sa niekedy nad tým, ako je možné, že niektorí kresťania majú v živote viac než dosť problémov? Často počúvame prosby o modlitbu, v ktorých sa opisuje jeden problém za druhým, ktoré útočia na kresťanov zľava i sprava. Vyjadrujú sa, že majú pocit, akoby ich Boh opustil, a majú pocit, že sú prekliati. Mohli by mať pravdu? Aby sme mohli určiť, či sme vykročili z Božej vôle, musíme preskúmať svoj život a zistiť, či sme sa niekde nezlomili z Božích ciest.

One of the biggest ways we can be cursed is by acknowledging or worshiping false gods which include cults or false religions and new age religion which takes us to the occult.
“Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.  Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the  astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and  save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. Behold, they  shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.”  Isaiah 47:11-14
How can we escape curses and be set free from the consequences that come from being involved with any of these things? First, we must be honest with God and admit our sin (even if we were ignorant at the time); next, we must repent and renounce all ties with the past in those areas which the Lord says are an abomination to Him.
Some may say this sounds legalistic, but to follow and love God means that as soon as we learn of something that we are involved in that is an abomination to God, we must remove it from our life immediately (the same is true of sin). If we love the Lord God and do not wish to have anything in our lives that could hinder or restrict our spiritual walk, we will be willing to put away anything that would keep us from walking in the fullness of God’s blessings and His plan for our lives.

Harry Potter Review: The Philosophers Stone

By Marcia Montenegro| Harry Potter is a character in a series of books written by J. K. Rowling about a young boy who discovers he is really a wizard, in other words, a sorcerer.

Four books have come out in the Harry Potter series, with 3.8 million copies of the fourth book being released in the U.S. on July 8, 2000. Worldwide, 35 million copies of the first three books are in print, with about half of total sales in the U.S. (“USA Today,” 6-22-00, p. D-1).
The first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was released in England as Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The “Philosopher’s Stone” is part of the lore of alchemy and medieval sorcery, and was supposedly a stone which could be used to turn base metal to gold, and was the Holy Grail of sorcery (Bill Whitcomb, The Magician’s Companion, St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1994, pp. 351, 485, 527).
Rowling has been hailed as a clever, imaginative writer whose books have enticed children into reading again. This is no doubt true. However clever or imaginative the stories are, they do center on a character who is learning the arts of sorcery and witchcraft. One defense, or minimization of the sorcery in the Harry Potter books, is that the stories are just a normal part of a child’s fantasy world. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis are often brought up as examples.
But are Tolkien and Lewis the standard for discernment? Even so, Lewis did not endorse the occult. And if Tolkien did, does that make it okay? (When I was an astrologer, my witch clients and friends loved Tolkien, by the way). Yes, Lewis and Tolkien wrote fantasy novels that included magical elements, but the question for Christians should be, is the fantasy (in any story) centered on the occult, and what does God say about the occult?

Astral Projection Exposed: Sleep Paralysis & The Demonic Realm

Odhalenie astrálnej projekcie: Paralýza v spánku & démonická ríša

By Steven Bancarz| Astral projection is the practice of willfully disconnecting your mind or soul from your body and travelling around in a parallel spiritual realm called “the astral realm”.

This is the name given to a dimension right above us on a higher plane, thought it looks the exact same as our natural world because it’s the same universe just on a higher level.
The metaphysical component of you that animates your physical body is believed to be an energetic imprint of your physical body almost like a phantom, or a ghost, and when this part of you leaves your physical body while your body is still alive, this is called “astral projection”.  When outside of one’s body, a person exists, theoretically, as a disembodied soul.

Что такое оккультизм

Начнем с маленькой реальной истории. Приходит ребенок домой – а там весь пол рисом посыпан. «Мама, что такое случилось?»

«Это, сынок, я дурную энергию прогоняю из дома» – пояснила мама одну из практик какой-то восточной мистики, согласно которой пол посыпают наговоренным зерном. Кто бы мог подумать, что в XXI веке, наряду с развитием электроники, новейших видов техники и перспективных отраслей науки, останется старое, суеверное увлечение оккультными знаниями. Известно, что современные певцы и актеры увлекаются каббалой, например, Мадонна, которая лично основала Центр изучения каббалы в Лондоне, а по ее примеру – Элизабет Тейлор, Мик Джаггер, Пэрис Хилтон, Кортни Лав, Филипп Киркоров, Лолита Милявская и мн. др. Норвежская принцесса Марта Луиса в 2010 году открыто заявила о своей приверженности к эзотерическим учениям и спиритизму. Бизнесмены внимательно слушают астрологические прогнозы, политики же и спортсмены накануне серьезных предприятий спешат за поддержкой к экстрасенсам, ясновидящим и колдунам.  
Оккультизм (от лат. occultus – тайный, скрытый) – это таинственные учения и культы, выражающие стремление проникнуть в духовный мир, познать потусторонние силы и овладеть ими. Эта кажется таким же таинственным, как и скрип старой двери, открывшейся в заброшенном сарае, когда детям одновременно боязно и любопытно туда заглянуть. В оккультизме считается, что в человеке, природе и космосе присутствуют таинственные, сверхъестественные силы, которые можно вскрыть, обнаружить. Оккультизм призывает овладеть этими силами и таким образом достичь более совершенной жизни на земле. Но разве не к этому же призывает людей и религия? В религии (под которой мы подразумеваем, прежде всего, христианство как истинную религию) познание духовного мира следует неразрывно за приобщением Богу. В оккультизме же человек пытается прорваться к духовным силам минуя Бога.