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Contemplative Prayer – Mysticism – by GoodFight Ministries

The video of this post is from the YouTube site, Good Fight Ministries

Title of video:  Contemplative Prayer, Mysticism & Kundalini

The following 7-minute trailer is on the topic of The Submerging Church, a reference to what is happening in the Emergent Church.

Contemplative prayer and transcendental meditation are chiefly considered, as these are the main ways church members are being led astray via their involvement in UN-biblical eastern meditation.

Pastor Joe Schimmel was a former New Ager before he was born again at age 18.

Video description at YouTube:

This short video sample is from Chapter 6 and Chapter 8 of our video, The Submerging Church. It goes into how the Emergent Church are bringing the Contemplative Prayer, Mysticism and New Age practices into the church.

Highlight points are below video:

Contents below highlights:    1, explanation of the unbiblical nature of TM  2, Links to Good Fight Ministries Playlists

HIGHLIGHTS [bracketed statements; emboldening and underscoring are mine]:

Excerpt from a post in this blog that explains TM and what the Bible says against it:

CHRISTIAN YOGA / CHRISTIAN HOLY YOGA / YOGA IN THE CHURCH / EASTERN MEDITATION

https://sheeplywolves.com/eastern-meditation/

Who practices eastern meditation? (Eastern meditation is also known as transcendental meditation; TM; entering the silence; Hindu or yogic meditation….)  Those of the New Spirituality (formerly New Agers); Reiki healers; Yogics; Wiccans; and now, Christians.

What is the goal of this meditation? Encountering the “higher self,”the deity within (one or more spirit guides).

For what reason would one want to encounter his higher self? Christian practitioners are seeking “fresh”, revelation from God, or “rhema” (In Christianity, rhema is used in Bible study to signify Jesus Christ’s utterances.[citation needed] from Wikipedia); Reiki healers seek these spirits to impart healing to their patients; yogics want to merge with God; Wiccans seek a deeper connection with the earth and blessedness. Some likely only seek mental refreshment; alleviation from stress; altered consciousness…but the truth is that this meditation opens up a channel to unknown spirit beings.

The steps practiced to enter the silence:   1PURGATION: is emptying the mind or stopping the stream of thought by repetition of a word or phrase (mantra).   2ILLUMINATION: acquiring truth via unknown spirit contacts and  3., UNION WITH GOD.

[Breath prayers, centering prayers…are like mantras, they are uttered with the intention of stilling the mind, to stop one’s thoughts; those who recommend them are moving practitioners towards eastern meditation.   God gave us reason and imagination, both have their purposes in the functioning of our minds; a chief function of reason seems to be that of gatekeeper, especially regarding imagination. If we permit our imagination to dictate to our reason, then we invite evil into our minds as there is no accounting for where our unchecked imaginations might take us. Stephen Charnock, in his little treatise, Sinfulness and Cure of Thoughts, addressed this in the process of explaining the cure he proposed.]

Why is this meditation unbiblical?  In the Bible, God divides knowledge into three categories:  1. general revelation (the created universe);   2. special revelation, (scripture); and   3, unrevealed secret knowledge belonging only to God (see Deuteronomy 29:29).  “Divination” is a biblical term describing any process used to get unrevealed spiritual knowledge (see Deut. 18: 9-12, e.g.);  “familiar spirits” are those entities encountered in divination or in eastern meditation (Lev. 19:31 e.g.).

God forbids divination. Those who use divination are opening themselves to evil because they cannot know what kinds of spirits they are encountering (Eph. 5: 1-21; 6: 10-18).   Anyone familiar with the 4 gospel accounts of Christ’s earthly ministry has read about Christ casting demons out of people who had been possessed by them. If you are a Christian who is dabbling in eastern meditation, then please reread the gospel accounts of these exorcisms, and consider practicing biblical meditation instead. As God protects Christians from such beings if they stay within the boundaries set by scripture. There are videos on YouTube about people who practiced yoga and were possessed by evil spirits, check them out for yourself. I studied psychic phenomena in one of my philosophy classes, and I remember studying how people had been possessed via using a ouija board; I have read of possessions occurring via TM…please don’t think that it cannot happen to you.

What is biblical meditation?   It is the filling of the mind with scripture to understand and apply it, as in, e.g.:  Joshua 1:8 “Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.” Also see Psalms 1 and 119; and 1 Tim. 4:15 e.g.  (Sources: Faith at Risk 4 and 5, Twin city fellowship; A Time of Departing by Ray Yungen; Is That You Lord by Gary Gilley.)

[The post from which the above excerpt came also has a 13-minute video from John MacArthur’s Strange Fire Conference about Kundalini spirit possession of yoga and TM practitioners.]

Link to GF Ministries video page: https://www.youtube.com/@goodfightministries/videos

Link to GF Ministries Playlists: https://www.youtube.com/@goodfightministries/playlists

Link to 6 video excerpts on The Submerging Church: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5B27D976AC9F0AE9

Visit http://www.thesubmergingchurch.com for more information.

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