Joel Osteen’s New Age Life Now?

http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=6645

By Brannon Howse

“Whatever you conceive you can achieve.”

With this favorite karma-changing promise, New Agers believe you need only use the “unlimited” power and consciousness of your mind to bring about all your dreams, desires and wishes.

Cloaked in a “Christian” package, Joel Osteen’s Your Best Life Now, bears an uncomfortable and dangerous similarity to this most popular of New Age claims. Sample a few of the Osteen versions:

• “You will produce what you’re continually seeing in your mind. If you foster an image of defeat and failure, then you’re going to live that kind of life. But if you develop an image of victory, success, health, abundance, joy, peace, and happiness, nothing on earth will be able to hold those things from you.” (page 5)

• “You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it.” (page 6)

• “You must look through your ‘eyes of faith’ and start seeing yourself as happy, healthy and whole.” (page 15)

• “What you will receive is directly connected to how you believe.” (page 22)

• “We receive what we believe.” (page 72)

• “Learn how to conceive. Keep the image of what you want to become in front of you. You’re going to become what you believe.” (page 81)

Osteen now travels the country, packing out stadiums with his happy-talk. But I’d like to see Osteen pay a visit to China, preach his “your best life now” drivel, and see how Christians there respond. Let Osteen look into the eyes of Pastor Lei who has been repeatedly arrested and beaten for preaching the Word of God in his church-a church not licensed by the Chinese government. How would the American’s best life work out for Pastor Lei and his congregation? Perhaps their jail time for the Gospel would give them time to assess Rev. Osteen’s claims.

Perhaps when and if these false teachers spend some time in jail themselves for just being a Christian (that is, if they truly are), they will see the error of their teaching. But for now, why should they preach anything different? It has made them rich by fleecing the flock of God!

Have these and countless other persecuted Christians been beaten, jailed and murdered because they “received what they believed,” or did these terrible things happen to them because they did not “develop an image of victory, success, health, abundance, joy, peace, and happiness”?

Were eleven of Jesus’ disciples martyred because, “they received what they believed”? Were the disciples living under a “curse of poverty and defeat” as Osteen says of so many? Here’s a role call of questions I’d like to ask Mr. Osteen. Why is it, Joel, that:

• Paul and Matthew were beheaded?
• Barnabas was burned to death?
• Mark was dragged to death?
• James, the less, was clubbed to death?
• Peter, Philip, and Andrew were crucified?
• Thomas was speared to death?
• Luke was hung by the neck until dead?
• Stephen was stoned?

How would these disciples take to the best-life message?

Yes, I know. Joel’s promises sound so much better to American ears than all those warnings of Jesus about being hated by most people for His sake. But it remains that in large measure, Joel’s offering can be described as nothing less than blasphemy. On page 36, he claims, “God has a big dream for your life.” On page 56: “God sees you as a champion. He believes in you even more than you believe in yourself!” And on page 110: “God has confidence in you.”

Let it be said: God is not impressed with any thing or any body. The ONLY thing that impresses Him, is His Son. Jesus and Jesus alone, is the sweet smelling aroma before the Lord.

Osteen does not provide a single Bible verse to back up these statements…because there are none. Nowhere in the Bible do we read that God believes or has confidence in us. He loves us, but does not believe in us. On the contrary, He knows all too well how unbelievably fickle and untrustworthy we humans actually are. It’s not like Joel describes on page 57: “Believe it or not, that is how God sees you, too. He regards you as a strong, courageous, successful, overcoming person.”

Furthermore, God does not define our success in materialistic terms as Joel does. God is interested in our obedience above all. On page 63, Joel writes:

As long as you are pressing forward, you can hold your head up high, knowing that you are a “work in progress,” and God is in the process of changing you. He’s looking at your last two good moves.

Joel, where in the Bible do you read that God is not looking at our last two bad moves but our last two good moves? Isaiah 64:6 says that even our righteous deeds are like filthy rags or wickedness to God because He is so holy. Even if God did look at our last two good moves, He would still see filthy rags.

Or how about this Osteen gospel gem from page 95:

“Be the best you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.”

Where in the Bible do we find this teaching? What if your best is getting drunk just once a week instead of twice a week? Should you still feel good about yourself?

But wait. I’ve saved Joel’s most outrageous statement for last (drum roll please). On page 144, Joel elevates us to the heavenlies by pointing out that “You may even need to forgive God.”

Whoa! And exactly what would we be forgiving God for? As I recall, forgiveness is for sins-or at least mistakes. But which of those has God made? Not a one according to any Bible I’ve ever read.

Oswald Chambers offers a perspective on the kind of thing the Osteens of the world do to Christians: “Satan’s great aim is to deflect us from the center. He will allow us to be devoted to the death to any cause, any enterprise, to anything but the Lord Jesus.”[1] Hebrews 13:9 instructs us to not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings (deflected from the center) but sadly, that is exactly what is happening for many at the hand of Joel Osteen.

Instead of pursuing our best life now, we should pursue the things of the Lord so we can have our best life later. I fear that for many who follow Joel’s false teaching, this life is the best they will get. The false gospel proclaimed by Joel Osteen and accepted as truth by millions may allow many to achieve what they can conceive of the things in this world, but true to Jesus’ promise, they may lose their souls in the pursuit.

“BISHOP” EDDIE LONG’S FRESH SPERM HERESY

I found the following here:

http://pure-truth1.blogspot.com/2010/03/bishop-eddie-longs-fresh-sperm-heresy.html

I think the writer did an excellent job explaining the truth. There is nothing I can add to it.

Here is a clip of “Bishop” Eddie Long preaching God’s word or in his mind “sperm”. Appropriately this farce was broadcast on Comedy Central with laughter in the background at his foolishness. The church is a joke to the world and this clip is a good reason why. There is absolutely NOTHING in the Bible to back up his vile statement. God’s word is pure (Prov 30:5a) God’s word is truth. (John 17:17) God’s Word is Jesus. (John 1:1, 14) GOD’S WORD IS NOT (AND NEVER WILL BE) SPERM! Why would Eddie preach this filth you ask? Because he is an ungodly man who has crept in unawares turning the grace of God into lasciviousness which is feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness. (Jude 4) Eddie is a pro at prostituting the gospel and turning it into sexually perverse filth. He does this because like all sex “preachers”, he is a pervert behind closed doors. Satan uses these kinds of people to infiltrate sexual perversion thru supposedly “keeping it real” because he wants to make this filth normal and encourage people to worship sex and themselves rather than God. Sexual sin brings self gratification. When your self is gratified, God is not. When God is not pleased, Satan is. Eddie mixes sex in his sermons because he is like all sodomite perverts wants to desensitize people to how abominable sexual perversion is in the sight of God. When people hear “sermons” like these constantly, they begin to accept perversion as being good and purity as being evil. (Isa 5:20) Those who live holy lives are considered phonies while perverts are considered being “real”. (Prov 29:27) They are real all right. Real Sick! Don’t you see what Satan is doing right up under your nose? He is using Eddie Long and others like him to infiltrate the spirit of antichrist into the house of God! (1 John 4:3) Antichrist means against or opposite of Christ. Christ desires his people to live in purity and holiness. The opposite of purity is impurity (perversion) and unholiness. Christ desires cleanliness. The opposite of that is uncleanness! God desires chastity and created sex for heterosexual marriage only (Heb 13:4). The antichrist spirit promotes whoredom and any sex outside of heterosexual marriage (ie homosexuality and adultery which Eddie indulges in despite being a “man of God”!)

This “fresh sperm” nonsense is no surprise given the fact that the same man also said “We go to church buildings that still have a mortgage. Which means the bank owns God’s house. Which means that we go and make love to God in a house that Satan owns!” and that he also teaches that God took a uterus, rather than a rib (Gen 2:21-22) out of Adam to make Eve! Yes, Eddie is doing his job as a “preacher” giving out “fresh sperm” to impregnate people. That is if you understand that his god is Satan who wants to impregnate people with sin, which will eventually bring their deaths. (Rom 6:23)

People please receive God’s word and not (ugh!) Eddie’s satanic “fresh sperm”! Please reject this heresy and repent! Those who attend New “Birth” (how fitting that name is for the “fresh sperm preacher” whose “god” desires to “impregnate” people with his…this is lunacy!) I urge you to renounce and denounce this pervert, his “church” and his teachings. I am sure some of you already know that perversion in the pulpit breeds perversion in the congregation. (Matt 23:15) There is some “birthing” out going on at New “Birth” alright! But that “birthing” out is of a perverted spirit! Please allow God’s word to purify you (Titus 2:14) and cleanse you of all unrighteousness! (1 John 1:9) Please allow his word to sanctify you thru its truth! Please allow God’s word to minister the gospel to you! (Mark 1:15) Seek God for guidance (John 16:13) and he will lead you to a true preacher of his word (Jer 3:15) who will help you to be truly delivered and set free! (Isa 61:1-3) You definitely need a new birth! But that birth must be of the water and the spirit…not fresh sperm!

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

John 3:3-7 (KJV)

Lev 18:22, Deut 4:2, 5:18, Prov 15:14, 30:5-6, Jer 48:10a, Matt 7:21-23, Luke 6:43-45, John 8:44, Rom 1:26-32, 13:14, 16:17-19, 1 Cor 2:17, 5:11-13, 15:33-34, 2 Cor 7:1, Gal 1:6-9, Eph 4:29, 5:1-12, 1 Thess 3:3-5,7, 1 Tim 3:1-7, 4:1-2, 5:20, 2 Tim 3:1-8,13,16-17, 4:3-4, Titus 1:15-16, 2:1,8, James 3:8, 2 Pet 2:1-3, 12-14,17-22, 2 John 7-11 and Jude 18-19 (KJV)

The LEGALISM in Word Faith doctrine

Joyce Meyers: “You know, dying to self is not a requirement to go to heaven…”

Who are we going to believe? Joyce Meyers or Jesus? Who are we going to trust with our eternal souls? Meyers of Jesus?

Did Jesus not say, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works. – Matthew 16:24-27 –

I dare not trust in the words of apostate Joyce Meyers. We are fools if we do. 

“God wants you to drive a nice car and have a nice wardrobe. And live in a nice home and have good promotions. He wants you to have great social life. He wants you to have the best of what the world has to offer.”

Really? We can see who has all that the world has to offer; the likes of Lady Gaga, Madonna, politicians, news media, leaders both in the world and church, Hollywood, the music industry, the eletists — so many have ALL the world has to offer and yet it means nothing when it comes to their soul. All the riches of the world will not buy them entrance into heaven.   

If this gospel does not work where for our brothers and sisters who are SUFFERING for the true Gospel in nations where the mere mention of Jesus will get your head chopped off, where you are thrown in prison for your beliefs, where you are stoned, where you are persecuted for daring to speak the truth — it is NOT THE TRUE GOSPEL. God says, “come out of her (the whore) my people and be ye seperate.”

Do not bother trying to defend this woman to me. I’ve told you the truth. What you do with it, is your buisness. You have been warned.

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Fleecing The Flock: Through Hypnosis

When I worked at the blind school as a house parent, there was one particular boy who had been blind at birth. He was amazing. He could listen to any song, then sit down at the keyboard and just start playing it. He was also autistic. He would talk to things. For example when it came his time to run the vacumn cleaner, he would say, “Vacumn cleaner, come to me. Come to me, now!” I went to him one day and said, “Bradley, do you really think that vacumn cleaner is going to come to you? Think, Bradley, think.” He thought about it and then said, “No.” I told him, “Then don’t say it anymore. You know where the vacumn cleaner is. Now go get it.” After that, he did not demand that it come to him anymore.    

That boy was a lot brighter than the people below who shout, ”Money, come to me now!” Not only are they stupid, but they are actually practicing a type of witchcraft/new age method. This is what the health/wealth gospel is about. Just speak things in existence. Same thing Oprah has endorsed for the past two decades!

And we wonder how our nation got into the state it is in. It is because of people like this, both black and white, who have strayed so far from the truth that they would not know it if it came and bit them on the nose.

Greed motivates them. This is selfishness, this is lust.

Stupid stupid sheeple!

Preachers and pastors like this will damn your soul quicker than anything!

Come out from among these hirelings and whores and pimps! Be ye seperate! Jesus is coming back and when He does He will deal accordingly with those who have taken his Word and used it for financial gain. He will also deal with those who have trusted in these heretics and made idols of them.

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Transfer of Wealth Conference??

I found this video here:

http://www.alittleleaven.com/2010/08/transfer-of-wealth-conference.html

I love the way the author put it: At least they’re honest, sort of. What they’re not exactly telling you is that the wealth that will be transferred is the wealth of the attendees of the conference. Their wealth will be transferred to the speakers of the conference under the pretense that if you give your wealth to them then God will give you more wealth in return. This is the “Christian” version of a ponzi scheme and its a total scam. God’s word doesn’t teach this nonsense.

My opinion: APOSTACY! COME OUT FROM THE WHORE WHO IS PRETENDING TO BE THE BRIDE OF CHIST! God is going to judge this!

Is Paula White the “High Priest” now???

I believe God Himself would have struck down dead those who would have tried to get by with this in the days of Moses and Aaron. Where does it say you get some kind of little trinkets for giving to God? Where does it say that teachings can be bought? Where does it say this is ok? It does not. This is more whoredom from Paula White as she pimps the Word for her gain.

Following taken off Paula White’s site:

http://www.paulawhite.org/atonement

We all face times of personal crisis and are often troubled by the turmoil in the world. But I have good news for you!

Paula White is a thief come to steal.

In Exodus 30, God commanded Moses on how to atone for the sins of the people of Israel. He said the high priest would meet Him at the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant (Exodus 30:6) once a year:

“And Aaron shall make atonement upon its horns once a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonement; once a year he shall make atonement upon it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord” (Exodus 30:10).

This year the Day of Atonement is September 18th – and as God’s Holiest Day of the Year, the Day of Atonement is God’s way of providing an opportunity for His people to seek reconciliation and honor Him with sacrifice.

The Day of Atonement not only provides for you to become “at one” with God, but also gives you the opportunity to receive EIGHT SPECIFIC PROMISES from God. The blessings that follow are reserved for those who are obedient to His holiest day and to His commandments.

We become one with God when we are born into his Kingdom. She is adding to the word of God for her gain.

1. INCREASE (Joel 2:23).
2. REVELATION (Joel 2:24).
3. FRESH ANOINTING (Joel 2:24).
4. GOD’S POWER (Joel 2:24).
5. RESTORATION (Joel 2:25).
6. FINANCIAL ABUNDANCE (Joel 2:26)
7. NO SHAME BUT DELIVERANCE (Joel 2:27, 28)
8. GOD’S PRESENCE (Joel 2:28).

The Lord also commanded that no one appeared before Him empty-handed: “…and they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed. Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you” (Deuteronomy 16:16-17).

Ah ha, she has the the old guilt thingy going. Don’t come empty handed. In other words, be prepared to give to HER. 

Every individual was commanded as they sought reconciliation and blessings to bring their VERY BEST SACRIFICIAL OFFERING to covenant with God. That is what I also ask you to do today.

When you send your best sacrificial Day of Atonement offering, to help you better understand this profound Holy Day of God, I want to send you:

• My brand new three-CD sermon series, “The Meeting Place.” This powerful audio teaching will take you beyond the borders of faith as you experience the power and blessing of living in covenant with Him through the atonement.

• SEVEN BLESSINGS OF THE ATONEMENT by Steve Munsey. In this book, pastor, author, biblical scholar, and my friend Dr. Steve Munsey reveals the seven incredible blessings found in the Day of Atonement and how you can see them at work in your life.

Steve Munsey, another who pimps the Word for his gain.

• For your best Atonement Offering of $70 or more, you’ll also receive the beautiful, ornate replica of the “Ark of the Covenant” for home or office, the perfect reminder of the covenant of forgiveness and blessings God has provided through His atonement.

Church, for all the talking these apostates do about being in a new covenant, they sure try hard enough to bring you under bondage to the old covenant. Paula White can not atone for our sins no more than the trinkets and teachings she offers.

She has somehow managed to set herself up as some kind of high priest.

Just more witchcraft going on within the harlot pretending to be the real Bride of Christ.

Rod Parsleys False Resurection Seed 2010

Nephtali1981: In order to avoid Rod or his ministry from flagging this video, i didnt even use any clips of his ministry. http://www.rodparsley.com/ResSeed25.aspx Click there to read how he is twisting Christ purpose on the cross!! Please Pray For Him!

The Passion Of Rod Parsley EXPOSED

“Don’t jam up phone lines for twelve dollar seeds.”

Didn’t Jesus say that the widow with her penny gave more than all of them put together? Who is Rod Parsley to say what is important giving or not?

“When a word from God is given, reason is never required.”

This is such manipulation! You better reason and use your brain, or else these thieves get your house payment, car payment, etc. and you be left without nothing. The Word of God says to take care of your own household first. Believe me, these apostates are taking care of theirs — by twisitng scripture to their gain and stealing your money.

For 10,000 dollars, change will come to you!

“God don’t ask for what you don’t have, he only asks for what you want to keep.”

Though this could be construed as truth (in dealing with sin issues), in this case Parsley is using it to manipulate. What if you want to keep your money for that house payment? For that car payment? What about money for food for your family? Parsley’s teaching sounds too much like what our government is right now! Socialism! Communism! Same spirit of man manipulating to steal what is yours.  

“Are you a warrior?…..then go to your phone… and in the name of god’s Christ…”

See the manipulation? Who wouldn’t want to be called a warrior? If you want Parsley to see you as one, then you must give money. My Bible does not teach this. And WHAT is with the ‘ in the name of God’s Christ ‘? Leaves me to ask, who or what is speaking here? Strange that he can not even say the name of Jesus. 

“Three hundred people with 2,008 dollars…eight people with 10,000 dollars right now…if you don’t have it, get as close to it as you can.”

But remember, no jamming the phone lines with twelve dollar seed.

If you just go to your phone and send in that money, God will change everything.

SNAKE OIL SALESMAN! WITCHCRAFT!

When you give money are you having faith in your seed, or faith in God? It does make a difference, friend.

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Benny Hinn Begs Followers For $2,000,000

Benny Hinn begging for money from his followers. You must ask yourselves, if the prosperity Gospel “works” so well and is true, then why do these pulpit pimps not send YOU money?

Come on, people, wake up. Come out of your slumber and stop following false teachers and fleecers of the flock of God. They are liars, deceivers and fakes out to make a buck off of you. I’ll say it again: Ask yourself if all they say is true, then why oh why do they not send their money to you?

A lot of hard working people are barely making it and these APOSTATES live high on the hog just like this government does. IT IS THE SAME SPIRIT IN BOTH AND IT IS NOT GOD. It is a spirit based on greed and lust and if you take part of it, you are involved in witchcraft by allowing these people manipulate you.

If you desire to give, then give to a local charity or someone of need WITHOUT expecting to get so much a trinket from one of these apostates.

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Manipulating dribble from apostate Frank Hechavarria

Frank Hechavarria is another imposter on the rise within the church. Same ol same ol from this bunch.

“He can make you a millionaire in one day. AGHHH! He can pay off your debts in two minutes. AGHHH!…He can give you a brand new car tonight. AGHHH! He can give you a brand new house tonight. AGHHH!”

Doesn’t it bother any of you who may be following this BS, why, if the Gospel is supposed to be about eternal things — (and it is) why is it that so many today focus on the temporal?

These teachers, these imposters to the truth, will have their reward. You come out from among them and be seperate.

Why the prosperity “gospel” is so DANGEROUS

If you support false teachers financially, then you are letting them rob you of the resources God gave you for YOUR family.  As they get rich off you, you can bet  they are preparing for the economic collapse. What are you doing to prepare? Sending them money in hopes that God will hear your prayer on account of these apostates? There is One Mediator between man and God. And that is Jesus Christ. There is no other. If you put your hopes and faith in these men or any other, then you are an idolator. Come out from among them.

Anyone else think Kenneth Copeland’s eyes look like a devil’s?

Benny Hinn $1,000 Seed EXPOSED

Do you feel compelled to give everytime some preacher or “prophet” tells you to give money to them? You may be sitting under a spirit of Witchcraft. Does something about it go against you, making you feel like you are not as spiritual or annointed as the man or woman speaking? Precious Bride of Christ, that is not God putting that on you. It is manipulation and control. Run from those who make merchandise of you!

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