Contemplative Prayer

Contemplative Prayer 

This new movement

is not about "contemplation."

It is not about thinking.

It is about emptying your mind

and

silencing your thoughts.

This includes "centering prayer."

We have 2 great videos below

to explain.

In this new movement,

the devil has redefined the word

"contemplative"

and attached it to

his re-defining of the word

"meditate"

to create

a prayer technique called

"Contemplative prayer." 

This movement does not attract alarm bells

because it sounds biblical.

Yet the name misrepresents the definitions of the words

and the techniques involved.

It uses the New Age definition of meditating

which gets people to focus on and go > inside themselves.

These people often have

a supernatural experience

and

many report talking to Jesus

or other beings inside themselves

that they believe are from God.

This emphasizes feelings and a supernatural experience 

that will slowly draw us away from biblical faith.

Please watch the TWO excellent videos below.

They will give many important insights.

This video

is about

Contemplative Prayer

but

it has

three minutes before

it starts talking about it.

I would skip those first three minutes.

The video

has a couple of minutes of introduction that include

a weird song
that may be talking about
John writing the book of Revelation
but it
makes me think it is mocking people
who seek to get
information from a dead Christian who happens to be named John.

I do not like that song.

Note that >  talking to dead Christians is forbidden by God.

See our page on talking to the dead

Also see our page on Yoga

Many Christians are being drawn toward

exciting, 

supernatural experiences

and

NEW

knowledge of spiritual things.

Many supernatural things are NOT from God.

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Christians

do not realize that they can stumble into

supernatural experiences

that ARE NOT from God.

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Please watch the excellent video below.

Our spiritual experiences

are NOT more important than

the Word of God.

Matthew 24:4

Jesus said, "Be not deceived"

and

many other Bible verses

talk about

believers being

deceived.

We are living in a time of GREAT deception.

~

I've noticed that many famous Christian teachers and preachers are going away from sound doctrine.
It puzzled me.

Through my research

I have found

the reason

why most of them are moving away from sound doctrine.

Many Christians are being drawn toward

exciting, supernatural experiences

and

NEW knowledge of spiritual things.

Danger - Danger

They do not realize that they can stumble into

supernatural experiences

that ARE NOT from God.

They are moving

into New Age practices - 

also called the Occult.

New Age is Eastern Mysticism. 

It is the supernatural realm of the devil.

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Contemplative Prayer

is not contemplative. It is not about thinking.

It is about emptying your mind. 

It is about

saying a word like "Jesus" over and over

for 20 minutes or more

while not thinking about anything.

Then

a deceptive spirit comes to talk to them.

This spirit often says it is Jesus.

It is not Jesus.

Jesus explains in Matthew 24:5 KJV

For many shall come

in my name,

saying,

I am Christ;

and shall deceive many.

A false Jesus or Christ

is coming to many individuals

who are getting

involved with New Age / Occult practices.

Jesus TOLD us how to pray.

"When you pray

say,

'Our Father who art in Heaven.'"

Jesus did not say

try to empty your mind and get in touch with

"god" within yourself.

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Contemplative Prayer 

opens the door to demons.

Contemplative Prayer is not in the Bible.

And take note,

in Matthew 6:7

the Bible says

not to pray in

thoughtless repetition (NASB)

babbling like pagans (NIV)

vain repetitions like the heathen (KJV).

So for a multitude of reasons,

we know that

spending time repeating a word is not praying

 and emptying your mind is not praying

 the way Jesus told us to pray.

The Bible is our standard for faith and practice.

God reveals himself through His Scriptures -

not through your feelings.

The Word of God vs. Your feelings

Which one has more weight in your mind?

Which one has more pull when making decisions?

2 Timothy 3:16-17 KJV

All scripture

is given by inspiration of God, and is

profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,

for instruction in righteousness:

That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly

furnished unto all good works.

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New Age & Occult practices

tempt Christians

to gain extra biblical knowledge -

note that the knowledge

is from the demonic realm.

~

If you depart from Scripture

then who or what are you going to allow

to define Truth to you?

And I remind you

that it was

an angel

that tempted

Eve

to go against God's stated words.

I grieve because

so many Bible teachers I used to listen to ...

have turned away from Bible Scriptures

being the source of all truth.

Standing Firm in these Days

Jesus said

HE is the only way to heaven.

IF

there was another way to heaven,

then Jesus 

would not have had to die

that horrible death !!!

Danger

when personal experiences

or feelings

are elevated to

the same level as Scripture or above Scripture.

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Below is more information -

https://nocompromiseradio.com/2015/11/the-danger-of-contemplative-prayer/

I am only recommending this page -  not the whole website.

I have not examined the whole website.

Consider our other pages:

Talking about Yoga

Talking about Prophets in the Church

New Age information

New Jesus

Protecting teens and children from the occult

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