Spiritual Manna Articles

585 Pages·2004·1.03 MB·English

Spiritual Manna for Spiritual Warfare Series
Endtime devotionals By Fritz Springmeier

INDEX TO SPIRITUAL MANNA ARTICLES. (chronological)

1. SURVIVAL IN THE SPIRITUAL DESERT
2. LESSONS FROM CHRIST ABOUT BEING OUR BROTHER'S
KEEPER
3. A SENSE OF IDENTITY
4. DO YOU FEEL HOPELESS? GOOD
5. ALLIANCES WITH PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL
6. APOSTASY
7. KNOWING THE FUTURE, MEMORIAL TO JOHN TODD
8. LOVING ONE'S COUNTRY & LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE
9. WHO ARE YOU?
10. WHAT HAVE YOU ACCOMPLISHED? SEEDS OF
ENCOURAGEMENT
11. BREAKING THE SPELL OF SLAVERY
12. BREAKING THE SPELL OF THE LIES WE LIVE BY
13. DO UNTO TO OTHERS AS.USE COSTLY PLASTIC CARROTS.
14. GET ANGRY AS HEAVEN!
15. EXPLAINING THE MASTER MAGICIAN'S TRICKS, SHOW &
FUTURE .
16. FROM---TO
17. DO YOU WANT YOUR LIFE TO COUNT?
18. NO PAIN, NO GAIN. LESSONS FROM VETS.
19. A CUP OF FRESH WATER
20. STREET SMARTS FOR 21ST CENTURY PILGRIMS
21. MY NEAR CHRIST EXPERIENCE
22. AMERICA, PREPARE TO MEET YOUR GOD
23. THE BIG SILENT UNASKED QUESTION
24. GOD BLESS AMERICA, YES HE WILL WITH JUDGMENT
25. COURAGE FOR A TIME OF WAR & A TIME OF PEACE
26. IF ONLY GOD WOULD.
27. THANKS DAD
28. VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH
29. TASTE THE LORD & KNOW THAT HE IS GOOD
30. THE REST OF THE STORY!
31. THE KINGDOM'S LOST TEACHING OF EMPOWERING GROUP
LOVE
32. THE COSMIC CHESS GAME
33. WATCHING THE WHEAT & TARES
34. THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH VS. TRUTH
35. BEING MIGHTY IN SPIRIT & HOW TO DRINK GOD'S BITTER
MEDICINE
36. ROCK-A MY SOUL IN THE BOSOM OF ABRAHAM
37. DON'T FORGET THE 3 STORMS, THE 3 PERSONS, & THE 3
MEALS.
38. SHOOTING OUR OWN & KILLING OUR WOUNDED
39. YOU ARE FREE, THEY ARE THE SLAVES
40. CREDIBILITY
41. CHRIST, SWEETEST NAME I KNOW
42. JUDAS ISCARIOT: AMERICAN HERO
43. DEALING WITH DIFFERENCES
44. INDECISION
45. FOR EVERY ACTION THERE’S AN EQUAL BUT OPPOSITE
REACTION
46. DO YOURSELF AND ME A FAVOR. WORK ON BEING MORE
LOVEABLE
47. YHWH KNOWS YOUR IDENTITY, DO YOU?
48. IN THE ANIMAL FARM’S SACRED PIGS WE TRUST
49. TRUTH IS ALWAYS TRUTH
50. SERVING GOD WITH OUR HEARTS ONE DAY AT A TIME
51. THE DANGEROUS SIDE EFFECTS OF POWER
52. COURAGE & DISCERNMENT IN RISK TAKING
53. COMMITMENT TO LIVING
54. SACRED SPOTS
55. PROTECTION FROM PERSECUTION
56. SPIRITUAL TERRORISTS, SPIRITUAL HIJACKERS, &
SPIRITUAL MURDERERS
57. TIL DEATH DO US PART: COVENANT MARRIAGES
58. GOALS & A PERSONAL HEAVENLY HOPE
59. YOUR HEALTH AS A FUNCTION OF THE HEART
60. DOING GOOD
61. REPAIRING THE BREACH IN THE VAIL WITH NON-TEARABLE
FABRIC
62. OUR VICTORIES ARE NOT REPORTED
63. IN TUNE WITH LIFE
64. 'AMERICA STANDS FOR FREEDOM'
65. SILENCE
66. BRAVEHEART
67. ORDER OF PHINEAS
68. HEAVEN IS NICE, BUT WHAT ABOUT NOW?
69. MASTERY OF SELF OR SLAVERY
70. WHAT’S ON YOUR HEART?
71. HEALTHY SPIRITUALITY
72. PEDESTALS ARE MADE FOR STATUES NOT MEN
73. RESIST NOT EVIL
74. NOXIOUS KNOCKS AT THE DOOR
75. LEARNING FROM OUR GARDENS
SPIRITUAL WARFARE IN A POST 9-11 SPIRITUAL DESERT
Spiritual manna (#1) via Fritz Springmeier, May the good Lord bless
you.
Being stranded in the desert is no fun. The heat beats down, and the
stomach
tightens up, will I get out of this "death valley"? But a certain set of
people come to love the desert. They discover its flowers, and its
pink-gold-purple scarlet sunsets. Blowing dust and glaring suns try to
blind
the desert dweller. But some people make peace with the desert and
learn to
successfully live there.
We are now in a spiritual desert, you can learn its lessons and come to
see
the beauty of these times or you can hate the spiritual desert. But
whether
you hate or love working in a spiritual desert, always have a healthy
respect
for its power to squeeze the life out of you. In the desert, you need the
water of life. Take in spiritual nourishment and the living waters of life.
You will have to plan ahead, because situations of life will have a way
of
overtaking you if you don't.
Big events are now moving the world, and the individual looks out on
the
world's huge forces and he seems tiny compared to the vastness of it all.
The
desert makes one feel how vulnerable we are. The desert makes us feel
small.
But small is not bad. Many of the most successful desert critters are
small.
This is just one small example of how something that seems bad can be
reframed
to see its hidden advantages.
The spiritual person has to get beyond images. Many of our images of
the
Moslem world are but mirages. They are myths created by the heat of
passion.
For instance, we have been led to believe that Jihad means a holy war.
Jihad
actually means "striving to make one's religion real in one's own life and
society". There are Jihads of the heart, there are Jihads of the tongue,
there are Jihads of the Hand, and finally the Jihad of the Sword, if their
belief in Allah is attacked. Most of the time Jihad is simply the striving
of
the Moslem's soul for God to become real in their life. And I hope that
the
God in heaven who loves them will become real to them.
It's always easier to see the fault in others, but what of our own faults.
Have you noticed that some of our nation's spiritual weaknesses have
also
troubled our military in the past? For instance, America has a type of
magical thinking, that allows Americans to identify with Hollywood
movie
scripts. We seem to think that if we magically think something could
happen,
and we write a script for it to happen, that it can. So we write the script
and send in our Rambos with their sophisticated impressive toys. In
Grenada,
they dumped the Navy seals way out in the ocean and some of them
drown. In
Somalia, we barely extracted our force of hundreds of Rambos
(Rangers, Deltas,
Seals, etc.) before they got annihilated. In Vietnam, we gave them fancy
M-16s
that were like Matel toys that jammed, and then blamed the jams on the
soldiers. "America doesn't make junk. We make the best." Again our
self-image
and our pride are everything. And it is a reflection of our spiritual
problems in this nation. We think we are spiritually beautiful, and we
are
naked and disgusting. We have to get past the vain images and pride.
Defense
officials in the U.S. and U.K. are quietly admitting the first attack by U.
S.
Rangers on the Taliban fighters almost turned into a total disaster.
America
has the potential, but not if we play games with ourselves. America
could have
built tanks that could have gone head to head with Germany's W.W. II
Panther
and Tiger tanks. But we preferred to live in our own images of glory.
Life is
just a Hollywood movie. Just write the correct script. Our churches are
the
same way, a lot of hype and image, but little substance. Some of our
churches
are simply entertainment. Some of our military actions in Vietnam,
such as our
pretensions to really bomb North Vietnam were simply entertainment
for the
American public by our Air Force. Lots of show, and little substance.
It's a
spiritual problem in America.
It might surprise people that our melting pot hasn't melted everyone.
While
in other countries that we despise, they often have long records of
peaceful
co-existence. Jews, Christians and Moslems have quietly co-existed
throughout
the nations of the Middle East for many centuries. (Not a bad
idea."When a
man's ways please the Lord, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace
with
him." PRV 16:7) Jews and Christians continue to live in nations such as
Iraq.
It might surprise some Americans to learn that 4 million Moslems live in
Germany and France (what we thought were Western or Christian
nations). It
might also surprise some Americans to learn that 90 million Moslems
live in
China, and 60 million in Russia. Why has Islam been growing so fast?
Why are
many Americans discarding the American way of life to join Islam?
Don't misunderstand me. I am not suggesting that Islam is the way. I am
suggesting that Americans quit playing around with images and
Hollywood
fiction, and get their heads back to reality. Americans live in our
patriotic
myths, and if we chase mirages we are apt to die spiritually. We are
immature
spiritual brats, spoiled by our affluent lives, and needing a few spiritual
spankings. Will we learn from our spiritual spanking or will we just
scream?
The night is coming to this spiritual desert. Christians who can read the
weather know it is going to get chilly and dark. Persecution and tyranny
are
coming. Don't forget to eat spiritually. The Word of God says, "Why
should I
fear in the days of evil, When the iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
(Ps.
49:5) The night has come before in the desert, and people survived.
Yes, the same kind of World Order Satanists that plague us today were
around
thousands of years ago. If we keep reading in that 49th Psalm (verse 11)
we
read, "They call their lands after their own names." Boy, our leaders
like to
get immortality by naming forests, buildings, and streets after
themselves.
But that is the only immortality they will get-for God says that their
souls
will not be redeemed from the grave. They are leaving a legacy of pain
and
sin. As verse 12 states, "Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not
remain;
He is like the beasts that perish." These powerful famous corrupt men
will
die no better than dogs, and then they receive eternal death, whatever
hell
God chooses to give them. Their self-serving good deeds will be seen
for what
they are, images bought and paid for.
You and I are not likely to become wealthy in a worldly way, but we
can be
spiritual wealthy by "redeeming the time, because the days are evil"
Eph.
5:16. In the desert, the water of life is treasured. What others will
squander
and corrupt-is prized in the desert. There is nothing like pure water. Do
not fear the desert, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens
me"
PH 4:13. In one place, the Word of God calls the wicked "raging waves
of the
sea, foaming out of their own shame." They will be like a sand storm
on the
sea-like desert too. Learn how to survive the desert and where the fruit
of
the desert can be found. Learn to respect the desert, for things are going
to
be harsher. Expect the heat and cold and suffering, just be thankful for
any
blessing.
When the judgment of God falls, there is "desolation". "That day is a
day of
wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation,
a day
of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness." ZEPH
1:15
While we will have to endure the desert, let us not forget Almighty
YHWH God.
"Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: Behold your
God
will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come
and save
you..The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and
the
desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. (ISA 35:4,1)
This spiritual manna was shared on Saturday, Oct. 27, '01. Lord
Willing,
I'll have more to share later.
Forward to Spiritual Manna part 2
SPIRITUAL WARFARE IN A POST 9-11 DESERT
Second offering of manna via Fritz Springmeier
The life of Christ has some lessons for us today.
Why did Judas Iscariot betray Christ? He was the only Judean among
the 12
chosen disciples, and considered the best educated. He became the
group's
banker, and it was clear from an incident prior to Jesus' arrest he lacked
the
ability to view things spiritually, but perceived things from a material
standpoint. Considering that Judas held this deficiency, it is not wild to
propose that he became disillusioned with Christ's lack of
aggressiveness at
the height of his popularity to seize power as a king and to work with
other
powerful groups of the day. Jesus (actually Yeshua) was on a spiritual
mission
to save the world spiritually, Judas only saw his own frustrations that
Yeshua
was not the fulfillment of the great leader his educated mind expected.
It's
obvious that Judas had to have an element of disillusionment with
Yeshua ben
Joseph (Jesus) because he betrayed Yeshua for an insignificant amount
of
money. As a educated wheeler dealer with money, he most certainly
was not
impressed with the amount he was paid to betray a popular friend (in
fact he
threw it away with disgust like a teenager tosses away a penny today);
but
there doesn't seem to have been any bargaining to get more. He was
disillusioned; Yeshua had not fulfilled his expectations. The second
thoughts
he had later also indicate his sellout was an act in the heat of the
moment,
precipitated by something. What are our expectations of Christ today? I
have
met my share of disillusioned "ex-Christians" who didn't get their