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What You'll Discover in this Episode:
Counseling and The Rapture of The Church
The rapture is a wonderful promise. God has not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation. Let us conduct ourselves based upon the reality that at any moment of any day, we could suddenly be caught up into the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ!
This Truth Brings Comfort:
“Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words" (1 Thessalonians 4:17–18).
This Affects How We Live:
"Beloved, now we are the children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure" (1 John 3:2–3).
This Mans We Live With An Urgency to Share The Gospel:
"Therefore … be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord" (1 Corinthians 15:58).
Because of what we are seeing in our culture and around the world today proves we’re living in the signs of the times (and the times of the signs!). There is a place for the end times events and eschatology in Biblical Counseling. What does the end times have to do with biblical counseling?
Jesus said if you see these things begin to happen, look up. Your redemption is drawing near. Look to the heavens and be reminded. This is what you, as biblical counselors, remind those who are in the biblical counseling office. It is important that we have a strong understanding of our position in eschatology.
Everything is going according to plan. When people get anxious, nervous, fearful, and worried they can see the scriptural timeline that God is in control. Because we have the scripture on our side to teach these things, we need to what’s happening around us and compare it to the Word of God.
What is your position on eschatology and biblical counseling?
Hello, I hear this day (first time) your podcast. It is wonderful, praise the Lord! To your question: if I have a general or special counselling gift from the Lord. I can say: yes and not always.
My comment to this: The Lord gave me 2001 a zeal that I have “the evidence” when all things in my life upsidedown and I am alone, I mean everyting is against me(even church and pastors) than Gods evidence arise in the middst of HIS people. And all people who are against me shut down in their false understanding about me and wow she is walking with Jesus. This is my call also from 1993 I got from the Lord: It was coming through a song from Keith Green as I was in the Lord supper at my church. I mean the whole congregation was witnessing when I got a call from God, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_YM_hYzcPo song called: There is a redeemer. This call was full of spiritual heritance. I mean it was not only the song and God called me: Ingrid and told me in spirit: 1. John 2, 15-16……on that time nobody knows about spirituality.
I was been 3-4 years born-again and did not understand anything, where this things of God leads me. ……..and later I understand that the pastors and elders also not understand how this call will come through.
At the end I go through a lot spiritual abuse. The church means that through me, when I enter church…..God will intervene and a huge revival will come…………………………..but nothing happened. Only a lot of pressure on me and mobbing against me, because nothing happened. After 10 Years misunterstanding I leave church. God gave me in vision: the land canaan.
What I want to say about conselling through church, there are diffrent opinion, which make this impossible. Because church wants alway grow in members and knowledge of God. But when a person like me, they do not see, they want see only my gift to the church. But this is absolutely wrong and false. Their is no garantie that this call comes through spontanously as I got it. I need years to understand my call and it needs much more years and steps by God in my life that my spiritual (supernatural gift) get at work in christian community. And this is very painful in soul and spirit and I lost many years in wrong Church.
And this is another point: God intervene in a evangelical church to me, but this church not believe in intervention of God and spiritual gifts. They have had no imagination. I learn from that, that many churches and believers block God in their understanding how God works. I asking often myself, when I would got my call in a charismatic church, would they interpretend right and not abuse me spiritualy……………………………………..But than 30 years later, I was been in a kind of charismatic congregation. And Gods power comes forth in worship, because I was been there. In this congregation they a singing songs about Gods greatness, power and ominents……and God intervens: The worship leader can not sing, He lost his voice and he can not play anymore on his gituare because he lost his voice. The congregation change the songs: How lovely Jesus is…..how he heals………but the church leader can still not sing. Than the pastor and the elder stand before and beside me and looked at me very confusing. They want that I leave the church because they understand very well that I am the reason why their worshipleader can not sing again.
They have had a prophet in their community and they want that he pray for their worship leader. But nothing happened ………..
So this was their side how they handle it, even they are believing in charisma. But they have their own view how things will happened. And they mean this comes through their prophet and not me, while I worship God.
My view was: I go in this congregation because I want thank and praise God in joy. In those churches normal worship is allowed in joy and moving around. As I start to worship the Lord in their worship: God comes forth and showed me: that the worshipleader has the fear of death. And God want help him to overcome this fear.
Perhaps this worshipleader was not born-again and do not know the Lord. Or he was meantal sick with fear or he has problems in his life which the Lord want to overcome. But the leaders are not interested.
I learn church people can block Gods intervention, when they not believe or not open for that.
Myself I was blessed in the Lord, because I can all learn this. And the Lord showed me that I stand in the audience of the marriage of the lamb. I have taken part in the bride of the lamb.
So I share to you my experiences with counselling the church. And how abusing and rejecting all this is. And I learn I am gifted to have interpretention of prophecys through the Lord intervention. That was not my first time. i can write down many experiences how the Lord intervene,,,,,,,,,but mostly believer and church people have diffrent opinions.