God Centered Dad

  We live in a fallen and confused world. I am bewildered over and over again as I watch the ways in which mankind gets turned around in their thinking. Religious confusion is not necessarily one of those areas that troubles me; mankind has been looking for something outside of themselves all the way back to Adam and Eve, and it is inevitable that not everyone is going to find the one true path. I suppose that the fact that people find alternative paths to 'enlightenment' is the root of much of the confusion that we see in the world today. In Romans 1:18-32, Paul tells us of what happens to men when we fail to recognize God as the Head of everything. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and div...

    I want to try to wrap up the series about the spiritual realm with this article. I have been writing about this topic for over a month now and while there has been a lot of material to cover, I think it is high time that this gets wrapped up. In this article, I want to share some things that I have learned about God's angels and how He uses them. I don't expect this article to be particularly long. It is based largely upon things that I have been told by people whom I have consulted with on spiritual matters, including some who see into the spiritual realm. We don't always understand what we are shown by God, so there are some speculative conversations that have happened around what people have told me that they have seen as we have tried to make sense of these things. So please, do not take what you are about to read as any type of theology. First off, I will start with my understanding that true Christians have an angelic presence with them everywhere they go and at a...

  I guess the next logical topic to discuss regarding the spiritual realm after having written about how to clear people and property of demons is to talk about how we as believers open ourselves up to demonic attachments in the first place through the things that we participate in. As I have stated previously, it is my understanding that a true Christian cannot be possessed by a demon. The reason for this is that we already have a resident in us in the form of the Holy Spirit. Part of my defence of this position is Matthew 12:43-45 which states, “Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. 45 Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way...

  In my last article, I offered guidance on how one undertakes spiritual warfare to release someone from spiritual attachments that may be weighing them down. These attachments can have physical, mental and, of course, spiritual effects on us. It is my belief that it is a good idea to address these attachments on a regular basis in order to be able to achieve the greatest spiritual health that we can; call it spiritual maintenance. There is another aspect to spiritual warfare that I have not yet covered and that is protection of the home and property in the spiritual realm. In one of my earlier articles, I mentioned that once a year my family undertakes to release each other from the spiritual burdens that we accumulate over the course of the year. At the same time, I do the same for our home and our property. There may be those who will be thinking that I am taking this far too seriously, but since I started doing this, we have heard from so many people on so many occasions that ...

     I have spent quite a bit of time and energy over the last month going into some specifics about the spiritual realm as far as I understand them. I do not claim to be an expert on these things, but I have learned a lot from others who have different giftings that allow them to better understand things of a spiritual nature or who have more experience in these things. My writings on the spiritual realm have revolved significantly around the things that those people have taught me as well as what Scripture tells us. The Bible does not go into specifics when it tells us about the spiritual realm; I believe that the purpose for this is to make us aware of the spiritual realm and the general nature of it while also trying to avoid encouraging us to explore it for ourselves. I hope that I have made it very clear through my previous writings that it can be very dangerous to play around with the spiritual realm, but in Christ we have authority over it, and in this article I w...