Paranormal Activity

 

Image of Light in a Blackhole (created by Copilot)

I was surfing on Instagram reels, laughing at the comedies and I came across a reel by Better Together – A Christian tv-talk show I enjoy -  and this lady was discussing how when she first became a Christian she complained to her pastor that the bible was too big and voluminous and his response was that the first two chapters of the bible was proof of God’s true intent for humanity on the earth and the remaining books just related how humanity kept messing things up and God kept chasing us down, time after time, giving us grace upon grace (paraphrasing). I enjoyed that perspective a lot because it shows that God’s intent for humanity regardless is love.

Rom 8:31  What, then, can we say about all of this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 

Rom 8:32  The one who did not spare his own Son, but offered him as a sacrifice for all of us, surely will give us all things, along with his Son, won't he? 

Rom 8:33  Who will accuse God's elect? It is God who justifies! 

Rom 8:34  Who is the one to condemn? It is the Messiah Jesus who is interceding on our behalf. He died, and more importantly, has been raised and is seated at the right hand of God. 

Rom 8:35  Who will separate us from the Messiah's love? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or a violent death do this? 

Rom 8:36  As it is written, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long. We are thought of as sheep headed for slaughter." 

Rom 8:37  In all these things we are triumphantly victorious due to the one who loved us. 

Rom 8:38  For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 

Rom 8:39  nor anything above, nor anything below, nor anything else in all creation can separate us from the love of God that is ours in union with the Messiah Jesus, our Lord.

Even when we sin we are not separated from the love of God, it is because that love exists that we can still come into His presence boldly and ask for mercy and grace to help. This of course is not an invitation to continue to walk according to the flesh (sin). There is death in walking according to the flesh. There is no part of God’s love for the Christian that embraces sin in that Christian. Meditate and pray concerning these verses:

Rom_8:1  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom_8:4  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom_8:5  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Rom_8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Rom_8:13  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify (put to death) the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

1Co_5:5  To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2Co_7:1  Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Gal_3:3  Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Gal_4:29  But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Gal_5:16  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Gal_5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Gal_6:8  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Php_3:3  For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

The previous blog discussed the gifts of the Spirit. If you have wondered why you are not walking and experiencing the gifts of the Spirit, the following may be the reasons.

1)      You don’t know about the gifts.

2)      Sin in you is acting as an impediment to the flow of the Spirit.

3)    Demonic interference

There are many that when you begin to study the gifts of the Spirt, you will realize you were already working in their reality but unknowingly. It really is a gift in all ramifications.

When we do wrong, we can and should acknowledge this before God and seek not just mercy alone, but the ability to sin no more from God. We need to ask to be made clean by the refiner’s fire and the fuller’s soap (Malachi 3: 2). The baptism of the Holy Ghost fire is the refiner’s fire. This was the experience of the Apostles on the day of Pentecost. The tongues of fire which was visibly on their heads is like the outward sign of a refining happening within. And then we see the power of God flow through them hence.

Act 2:1  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 

Act 2:2  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 

Act 2:3  And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 

Act 2:4  And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 

Act 2:5  And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 

Act 2:6  Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 

Act 2:7  And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 

Act 2:8  And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 

Act 2:9  Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, 

Act 2:10  Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, 

Act 2:11  Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. 

Act 2:12  And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? 

Act 2:13  Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine. 

Something am learning about the tongues of fire is that we focus on the ability of fire to consume impurities in us, but other times the fire of the Holy Ghost is ‘Light’ to chase away ‘Darkness’ where evil lurks. Sometimes evil cannot be consumed, they have to dispelled.

A cringe-worthy but apt example of light dispelling darkness is in the Harry Potter story, where when Dementors (My guess is that JK Rowling combined the words ‘Demons’ and ‘Tormentors’ together to form the word ‘Dementors’) attacked, only light could dispel them. And this light comes from a joyful memory – the more the joy in the memory the brighter and stronger the light. We must also be ready to call forth light out of darkness:

2Co_4:6  For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Only that in realty Jesus is our light - It is with joy that we draw water out from the wells of Salvation (Isaiah 12:3).

Let’s look at what our favorite Apostle has to say about this:

John 1: 4 -5

In him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

Jesus is the light of this world that dispels and overcomes all darkness even a ‘black hole’. This is a paranormal activity.

One of the confessions I make regularly which am allowed to share here is “I receive the life of Jesus”. You will find that it is sweet to your belly when you say it believing. You cannot have too much of the life of Jesus in you.

What power is at work in you?

I will end with this prophecy by Malachi

Malachi 3: 13 – 4:

You have spoken harsh words against me, says the Lord. Yet you say, “How have we spoken against you?” 14You have said, “It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts? 15Now we count the arrogant happy; evildoers not only prosper, but when they put God to the test they escape.”

16Then those who revered the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord took note and listened, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who revered the Lord and thought on his name. 17They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them. 18Then once more you shall see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

4:1  See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. 3And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.

4Remember the teaching of my servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

5Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. 6He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents, so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse.