Spiritual Hypocrisy By Oswald Chambers

Edition Modern Classic Updated Classic If we aren’t mindful of the way the Spirit of God works in us, we will become spiritual hypocrites. Instead of interceding in prayer when we see another person failing, we’ll turn our discernment into criticism. Be very careful that you don’t act like a hypocrite and try to fix other people before you yourself are right with God. The Holy Spirit isn’t revealed to us through the intellectual workings of our mind, but through the direct penetration of our souls. If we aren’t alert to the source of the revelation—to the fact that it is God, not us—we will become cauldrons of criticism. We’ll forget what Scripture says about our dealings with others: “You should pray and God will give them life.” One of the subtlest burdens God puts on his disciples is this burden of using discernment when it comes to other souls. Why does he reveal certain things about others to us? It isn’t so we’ll criticize them. It’s so we’ll take their burden before God. It’s so we’ll form the mind of Christ regarding them, interceding with him on their behalf. God says he will give them life if we pray in this way. To intercede in prayer isn’t to tell God our opinions or to let him in on the workings of our minds. It’s to stir ourselves up to get at his mind, his thoughts, about the people for whom we intercede. Is Jesus Christ seeing the workings of his soul in us? He can’t—not until we are so identified with him that we strive to know his mind. If we want Jesus to be satisfied with us, we must learn to intercede wholeheartedly on others’ behalf, as he intercedes for us: “Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them” (Hebrews 7:25).

"How To Pray For Nature" by Agnes Sanford

Agnes Sanford believed Christians could pray about natural events including natural disaster concerns like earthquakes.She built her house on the San Andreas fault lines beleiving that while she was living there there would not be another "big" earthquake.Maybe we should be praying about climate change.My pastor used to say we could learn things from Agnes. I heard her speak in Adelaide when I was a new Christian. She did make a lasting impression on me.Frank Lauback was also one of the "Christian Mystics" who taught many good things about prayer.Saduh Sundar Singh was also a Christian man who some of us woukd finf fault with but has much to teach us. These tapes are from the CFO (Camp Farthest Out) movenent founded by Glenn Clarke.

War Against Saints ~ Jessie Penn-Lewis

Testing the Spirits

We are told in the Bible the following. "1 John 4:1-3 On Denying the Incarnation Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. ..." There are people who have exercised a ministry in doing just this in various countries. There are some in Austalia who have worked in this area.Some in America and I woukd guess other countries as well.What do you think it means? I have put a link below to an audiotape on the internet by the late Stan Motherwell. I have a copy of this and first heard it many years ago.There have been many extremes in the Charismatic and Pentecostal movement.This is a message by Stan challenging the movement as it was gaining much momentum in the 1970's.I have not been involevd in this ministry.This shoukd be listened too with discretion and discernment. In talking to my minister who alerted me to this practice he advised that usually those who agreed to this test discovered the spirit giving their tongue was not from God. These people were Christians who had been deceived. https://promiseboxaudio.com/stan-motherwell-the-movement-of-gifts/

Healing at any price? What about alternative medicine and Healing?

A Biblical Approach to Wholeness by Geoff Thompson Introduction

The Cleaner (2025) | Christian Short Film