Wilderness Survival for Christians - Part 4

Wilderness Survival for Christians Series
by Joseph Herrin of The Parables Blog

Expectations

I have learned much from my own wilderness walk. I desire to share these things that I might lessen some of the agony that comes to people when they do not understand what is happening to them. Oftentimes perplexity can lead people to despair for they may believe they have somehow gotten out of God’s will and are on their own. To think such a thing will rob the saint of peace and make it very difficult to continue on their way.

I have shared that in 1999 the Father brought me to a place of surrender to follow Him wherever He would lead. This was actually my moment of counting the cost of being a disciple of Christ and accepting it. I was immediately led into a wilderness walk. The narrow gate opened before me and the afflicted path to life greeted me.

Wilderness Survival for Christians - Part 3

Wilderness Survival for Christians Series
by Joseph Herrin of The Parables Blog

Wilderness Entry Point

If you were about to enter into a wilderness experience that a vast number of people had attempted before, an experience in which only a remnant survived, would you not want to study the lives of those who perished, and those who survived, that you might be prepared?

There are a great multitude of Christians who will perish in the wilderness. They will not enter into God’s rest. They will fall short of possessing the glorious inheritance that could have been theirs.

Wilderness Survival for Christians - Part 2

Wilderness Survival for Christians Series
by Joseph Herrin of The Parables Blog


Wilderness Survival for Christians - Part 2

Though None Go With Me, Still I Will Follow

The first post in this series spoke of the necessity of lightening one’s load to begin a journey into the wilderness. Knowing what to take, and what to leave behind is a critical matter. It is also necessary that those going into the wilderness make decisions concerning WHO to take, and WHO to leave behind.

When Christ declared what was required to be a disciple, He spoke of personal relationships. Even as He said that no man could be a disciple who did not give up all his possessions, He also said no man could be a disciple who did not give up all his relations.

Wilderness Survival for Christians - Part 1

Wilderness Survival for Christians Series
by Joseph Herrin of The Parables Blog

Wilderness Survival for Christians - Part 1

There stands between you and Yahweh’s intended destination for you a journey that must be experienced. The path to your inheritance in Christ leads through a wilderness. Although this wilderness may include time spent in a natural wilderness area, and trials of a physical nature, such as finding food and shelter, the wilderness is primarily spiritual. The pattern with God is “first the natural, then the spiritual.”

I Corinthians 15:46
However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

The Mother of All Secrets

This is an important video, which you will want to watch in its entirety.

Pastor Mike Hoggard speaks about the occult nature of secret societies and God's admonition about things done in secret.

He also goes into how DNA is used in the occult as a reference to the transformation of the very make-up of man in preparation for demonic indwelling. An example of this is seen in Genesis Chapter 6 when the nephilim were created. According to Bro. Mike, this is "the secret" the occult - under demonic inspiration - is after; mingling with the seed of men.

Much of what God has given to post on this blog since its inception is all tied up to this one message; from the Beyonce-Sasha Fierce Possession series, to the series on I Nobot, to the break down on what is happening to education in America, the expose on Twilight, the Gaia worship that is being pushed as "Earth Day" celebrations, the root problem in the church, and much more. The one common bond that each of these things share is the "secret" occult agenda of the merging of the nephilim with the seed of men.

The Path to Power and Usefulness

A powerful sermon by A.W. Tozer where he addresses such
topics as:

• What it means to be filled with the Spirit?
• What is spirit possession?
• What are "self" sins?
• What is true joy?
• The purpose of despair and loneliness in a Spirit-filled
  believer
• How to be filled with the Spirit
  

Excerpts from the sermon include:

"The Holy Spirit who inspired the Scriptures will also expect 
obedience to the Scriptures. If we do not obey the Scriptures, we quench Him."

"Everybody is as full as he wants to be. Everybody has as much of God as he desires to have."