Best take-away: “Those who don’t read & study their Bible consistently are the easiest to deceive by those who misuse it.” 👏👏 Great teaching in this video!
May I suggest it is not those how do not read the bible but instead those who fail to dwell in the secret place of the most high continually are the easiest to deceive. The Secret parable Mysteries of the bible are revealed in the Secret place of Prayerful Meditation Daily to All People of every Race and religion. God does not need a book to reveal the secrets of the universe but what He does need is a anointed Soul = mind to Hear God's thoughts that leads to Godly Character that manifests to the World the Loving Kindness and Faithfulness of the Creator.
@@NFTeve Dear one you are correct because the bible is only a manual that can add is helping a person understand how they are fearfully and wonderfully made but the substance is knowing your self and how you are formed and function on the inside. Very few church going Christians even know what the Greek word Christian means because they have been indoctrinated with Church religious insanity Christianity. In reality every human being is a little Jesus at physical birth and must be Christened with Divine Consciousness to become a mature Son or Daughter of the Most High Creator's. Even The Jesus of the Bible did not become Christ = Anointed until He was around 30 years of age. Meaning of Christian = Christ = Anointed and Tian= little literally means little or Child anointed one. The Bible is a spiritual book in physical form and it is no different than any man written Religious Holy book because they all contain the same mystery of the Human Body's Creation, Function and Purpose. Every Human being is there every own Kingdom, Temple, Priest. Prophet and most of all Sacrifice. Ever bible story is about you and your Scrip you are playing out as you grow into maturity day by day. True Scripture = Your-scrip written in your very own personal DNA at Birth which contains your personal Book of Life. Study Human anatomy, Histology, Biology and Hematology and know your self and then you will know God. May you Know and Grow daily in your personal life journey to Spiritual maturity and you do not need a bible to be Anointed with Christ Consciousness. Spell Anatomy and when breaking it down spells An - Atom-Me that relates to the bible story of Adam ans Eve which we all are. Inner Love, Peace and Blessing to you.
Here’s an “I AM” statement I never hear from New Thought people: I AM a sinner in need of a savior. THAT’s the only I AM statement we need to make, and the only one that actually has the power to save us.
Amen. I keep telling people this. In the darkest of days we are in, the enemy is on the prowl everywhere. Discernment helps you determine what is right and what is wrong.
How about tithing??? I was preached to that we be cursed if I do not commit faithfully over and above. I thought Christians were redeemed from the curse of the law?? Then pastor keep preaching old covenant blessings and cursing?..why
@@jadutch7361 ...well, there us a mixture of 'laws' that do translate over to the New Testament and a whole lot that does not. And there blessings in the OT that apply to all people who follow Him and there are blessings specifically for Israel either during their nationhood or to a point in history, such as that made to Abraham that some Christians think are transferred to the church but are not.
@1969cmp appreciate it!! I mean the point of axis for Christians is Jesus fulfilled the law for believers on the cross, and the curtain of the temple was torn in two so we have ( through the completed work of Christ, on the cross) have direct access to Gid as our Heavenly Father..... we are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus.
One of the biggest issues is people don’t want to take correction. I have been studying the Word for 22 plus years daily and I will gladly take correction because I would rather know truth than be right. Correction and judgment are completely different things.
Psalms 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
My grandma became a Christian at 12yo. She went to my church for 30 years. A church that had very solid theology. HOWEVER, they never targeted wrong beliefs or thought that anyone in our church could have had them. When my grandma was dying, she was terrified. Because she believed that she hadn’t done “enough” for God. Her friends in that church also told her that her time wasn’t up yet because she “had more to do.” It came out around then that she watched Joyce Meyer and Joel Osteen everyday. I also remember now that she had a copy of The Secret that no one ever pointed out as false to her. Even once she died, her friends attempted raising her because they didn’t think it possible. This situation really galvanized in me at 19 that this wasn’t the truth of the gospel. So in a morbid way, I’m grateful for having watched it happen.
@@thekingsdaughter4233 hear what confession? The original posters whole statement is based on her confession that she felt like she had not done enough... Is that a confession or just a point of conversation? Surely you're not thinking that she needed an intercessor to go over all of her already confessed and forgiven sins without the help of someone, other than Jesus Christ. I guess I don't understand this comment response... Or if there may be a typo involved.
@@kimtonearts I think I understand what they were saying, but it might have been badly worded. Original poster said their grandma was terrified because she thought she hadn't done enough, meaning she thought by doing good works she could earn her way into heaven, which is a wrong belief, not a confession. She didn't need someone to confess to, because that's not what she believed would save her, she believed she needed more time on earth to do more good works. The response by @thekingsdaughter4233 could have been worded better, something like, "I gather there was no one with your grandma to pray with her and bring her back to Christ, who died for her sins, so she would be saved through him?".
My wife’s dad recently lost his wife to cancer and both were Assembly of God/Pentecostal. Their church had a heavy focus of pray it and claim it, prosperity, and a belief that if something bad happens you didn’t pray hard enough. Which has lead her dad, at 70+ to go through a bit of a crisis of faith. Thankfully my wife and I have been going through a bit of a relearning phase of our faith. It’s a delicate balance of trying to explain to him that, pain and suffering is a part of this life. Explaining that we worship at the feet of a God who died a horrific death of pain and suffering. That Paul’s life was a testimony to this, and even with his steadfast faith, lived a life of imprisonment and suffering: while at the same time, being devoted to Christ. It’s a slow go, but these concepts of “become a Christian and life will be perfect” do more damage than good.
Thank you! Stated perfectly! I have chronic pain from lupus and bone and muscles issues. My faith in him will always be there! I may suffer here ,but one day I won't! God bless
Not all who are A/G-pentecostal believe name it claim prosperity! My pastor reiterates ALL THE TIME read the Bible so you're not deceived & yet a lot, in any denomination/fellowship do not. I used to be like that too but praise God not anymore. So please don't lump all pentecostals in the same basket 😊
I've been A/G for years, raised Baptist. I've never felt or been taught in A/G that one can't get sick and die. Quite balanced and depending on God's will. I suppose all A/G pastors have a bent, especially in different parts of the country. The last 10 years, though, New Age and New Thought has definitely crept into many more A/Gs
It is something we all need to be cautious of. I went to a cessationist Baptist church for years. Amazingly enough, I constantly heard I was sick because I was not right with God. Zero compassion and a lot of judgement. No offers for prayer. Turns out I did have some serious conditions that were killing me. Through prayer, pressing in to find the right doctors and making life changes all have helped me to get my life back. I did have a crisis of belief but I did finally come back to Him and building a new foundation with scripture.
Echoes of the 'Name it and claim it' movement. Brilliant exposé, Melissa. Thank God when I was saved 38 years ago, the deep errors were only beginning to creep in. With the Vineyard Movement ( signs and wonders) Kansas City Prophets, ( Prophetic Movement) and others. It's way worse now since that door was opened.
I don't know anything about New Thought, but it sounds an awful lot like "Old Thought" (i.e., Gnosticism). A lot of the strange phrasing quoted in this video is typical of Gnostic writing. The author wants to make it sound difficult by using unnatural syntactical structures so that you think they're smarter than they really are.
Just food for thought…as I was training to be a bank teller, our course on counterfeit money was to study the real thing so in depth that we were recognizing very convincing counterfeits by the end.
Today's spiritual landscape is a minefield! I am so thankful that God is patient with us. If you are willing to be corrected, and you're really seeking truth, He leads you to it.
I always like to think I am not the smartest person in the room, what if I have questions about something important, I would hope there's someone I could go to . . .
It's why an early church father wrote, Against Heresies. John's epistles Waa also to address gnostism. Then there was Simon the sorcerer who some link to Simon Magnus, an gnostic 'influencer'. In the 19th the compromise with Darwinian evolution, the growth of higher criticism. The mid 20th century is the birth of modern word of faith garble.
I love your way of addressing the hypocrisy and the misinformation that is out there made even worse with social media. I am in full agreement about the need to read the Bible for oneself to truly know and learn from The Source regarding our Christian faith and our walk with the Lord. I started reading the Bible in its entirety each year and have been doing so for the past 4 years. It is amazing how much I missed in the past by reading scripture sporadically and piecemeal really, with no continuity or background/context of what I am trying to understand. I encourage everyone who wants a better relationship with the Lord and for wisdom and discernment READ THE BIBLE FOR YOURSELF! 🙏🏻♥️
Hello Donna! Do you read it cover to cover or chronologically? Im curious if you have done one or the other or both. And what would be your recommendation.
Great practice! I did this a few times in my early walk we with the Lord. It's also good to switch to topical studies for deeper understanding. I'm back to reading it through in a year. As much as I have been through the Word I still run into passages that leave me wondering how I never noticed them before.
I'm so proud of you for teaching the truth to the younger generation. I'm 75 and was beginning to feel the youth were being neglected. Never hold your peace young lady.
This was me. I was so tied up in this toxicity. I cried out to Jesus and repented and was rescued from all these lies. Humbled and begged for mercy. Praise Jesus!!! There are wolves in sheep’s clothing everywhere. I read the Bible and pray for wisdom and understanding!! Another toxic teaching: “A Course in Miracles”
I fell for it too then I learned that the people responsible for the video production were cut out of it just a few days after the video was released, so some people have the original with Esther and Jerry Hicks. I started seeing little animated videos on RUclips quoting Esther so I bought a couple of their books and accidentally read them out of order, so I think I read the 2nd one first or maybe I ordered them that way. But I learned about “Abraham” and started feeling uncomfortable with that. Then I read the book about how the couple had gone to a medium, a show with a lady like Long Island Medium that told them of things no one could have known. So Esther and Jerry really wanted to learn more about it and scheduled a one on one session, and Jerry was not as in tune as Esther was, anyway, she learned how to Channel Abraham… or a collective of entities on the other side. So when Esther is quoting Abraham she is in a meditative state and these “spirits” are talking thru her. YIKES! But I fell for the whole positive affirmations and universal energy hook line and sinker!
I had such a similar experience with these type of beliefs. I called myself a Christian and also read tarots and used crystals to try and "hear from God". I was so lost, but God reached out to me and I am saved by Jesus's blood. I am forever thankful, grateful and growing. Amen❤✝️❤️
New Christians also need Christian friends. I came back to the Lord last year after many years away. Got rid of my "friends" because I could not get free from some things if I didn't. Started attending a church that is great except for one thing. I'm been in a Bible study group, volunteer at church activities, and on the prayer team. After almost a year I still have no Christian friends despite reaching out. I need more fellowship than an hour and a half on Sunday and an hour on Wednesday. Forget being discipled; I can't even get one of them to go to lunch, my treat! Someone told me church is not a social club. I get that, but shouldn't we be different? I got this treatment in "the world".
I have lately encountered Christians that have been doctrine with new thought and I was puzzled why they had this “thinking” and sense of superiority. Thank you for sharing and helping me understand more how they were so confused.
I had the “I am” app up until last week, something felt off so I googled the parent company and it’s literally a group of developers creating new age apps. Just watched your video and this is confirmation. Thank you for sharing!
Yes, my husband does not read the Bible. He listens to preachers. He listens to the Bible on CD, but usually he talks through the message. He thinks he cannot be deceived. I told him if you think that you cannot be deceived you will be deceived mad but it’s true. You have to read the Bible, if you don’t will be deceived, and God will allow you to be deceived because you choose not to study this word
I studied the bible at a bible college, was into it for 12 years. Still I got fooled by Napoleon Hill and his pack‘s teachings. I got back to the bible and prayer liffe. Be on alert, even if you do read the Bible. Even Isaak Asimov has a commentary on the Scriptures, he was a nonbeliever.
@@auroraguzbeth2255 Very true. We still need to be careful and ask the Holy Spirit to help us. The last 1-2 years I have been asking that non stop, and I have come to realize many things and people I once believed are things and people I should not have. More and more I am sticking to scripture and even if I don’t fully understand, I trust I will eventually.
“It’s not an excuse, but it is a reason”, I LOVE this. We need to understand why things happen so we can learn and grow, not so we can blame and accuse. It’s all about personal growth and improvement.
After my conversion, I went right into New Thought. It was the Word of Faith teachings. So thankful, as I continued to learn about the Word, I started seeing New Age, Mysticism, and other false beliefs being mixed in with truth. Wasn’t even aware of New Thought until a few years ago. It became abundantly clear I was taught and followed lies. New Thought is rampant among Word of Faith, and NAR. Praying for all led astray and held captive by these false teachings.
Our foolishment is we get so free after reading Galatians we throw away all God's laws and obedience to Christ. And live in freedom, ready to follow our desires of the flesh...
The major problems with so-called Christians is that they do NOT read the Bible first themselves. They listen to others who have ulterior motives and who manipulate them into taking certain stances. The Bible answers lots of questions about things that are happening but most people will reject those answers. Why? The answers don’t line up with what the televangelists charlatans say. Hence the deception. It should not be strange. When the disciples asked Jesus about the signs of the end times, the FIRST thing Jesus talked about was deception. *“Jesus answered them, Be careful that no one misleads you [deceiving you and leading you into error].”* Matthew 24:4 AMPC If that isn’t what is happening today, then nothing in the Bible is true.
Mellisa, you are beyond your years! Even though I've been able to sniff the stink out at a gut level, it's been much more difficult to define it specifially. You have defined it so well! New Thought is a new term for my ears, but I've been very aware of prosperity doctrine for many, many years, and I've been aware of the most flamboyant among them. Now I'm even better armed against their deceptions and how to better define them to my younger brothers and sisters in Christ. May God bless you for your obedience and willingness to expose the deception!
This is why it is SO IMPORTANT to stand on the Word. Study the Bible. "All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." 2 Timothy 3:16-17
I have been a Christian for over 50 years and have almost (Thank the Lord that I wasn't) been caught up in these lies. It hurt when I read, and understood, John 16:33. We will have trouble. Period. I can't "speak into it" and make it better. I can't claim I'm a victorious Christian so this shouldn't happen. I can only pray through it and learn from the journey. Each time I hear you talk about this, Melissa, I'm reminded of teachings I have had in the past that I've backed away from. Didn't know there was a name for it.
I had a lot of this thought taught to me as a teen. It’s very harmful, especially to newer Christians who embrace the love of a church full of nice people who don’t read their bibles.
I was thinking of that exact scripture as she was speaking. We WILL have trouble. God helps us get through it when we submit and know that His ways are not our ways. Still, sometimes we (as humans) don’t get through it. Our earthly bodies pass away. But He is there all along guiding and comforting us through the struggle. My favorite scripture is 2 Corinthians 12:9. “When I am weak, He is strong.” I am always weak and fallible but thank God He is strong and always faithful.
Excellent video. Thank you for the work you do. Much of this “New Thought” seems very akin to Gnosticism with its emphasis on “special knowledge”. And the level of biblical illiteracy in Christendom today I’m sure grieves the Lord. This video also brings to mind 2 Timothy 4:2-4: “preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.”
I don't know if you remember Robert Schuller and his "Hour of Power" show from the Crystal Cathedral in the 80's and 90's. I don't know if he was a new thought person or not, but even as a teenager, his positivity gospel struck a discordant note in my discernment. Some of the authors you've shared certainly remind me of him the few times I stayed tuned in for the message (I usually changed the channel after the soloist was done).
Hi Melissa, sounds like we transferred out of the same club. I praise Jesus for the Truth. I am a student of the Word now. ❤ Thank you for all that you do to bring truth and light to us all!
Yeah, me too!! I woke up when I saw my homeschooling mom buddies leaving Christianity behind and I just couldn't leave my Jesus, although I was in bed with all sorts of new thought gurus like they were! God brought me to repentance and I threw away a bunch of books, unfollowed people and began reading my Bible daily. PTL!!!
Many women especially can fall victim to this. It’s a slippery slope when we go with FEELINGS. Many female ‘Christian leaders’ teach things like ‘you are enough’ and ‘listen to your heart’ type things. No to both of those ideas because the Bible says we aren’t enough and your heart cannot be trusted. You hit the nail on the head when you said for you, this happened by not reading the Bible and instead relying on other books written by people who are mostly ‘new thought’. Another great video, Melissa!
@godandfamilyalways8149 yes. I AM enough because of the work of Christ. God SEES me as enough because of the righteousness of Christ. Not because of me, but because of him.
Scripture is the remedy for deception. This is sooo true. I'm on my own journey like this. Since I started reading the Bible exegetically, I have noticed that there are so many new age, new thought and other ungodly teachings in our churches even here in Africa. Thank you for this.
Everyone around me has their own ideas about God and they don't read or study the Bible. Thanks for helping me know how to confidently talk to them about it.
This is why is so important for us to keep reading your bibles. Over and over again. It’s how you keep a sober and clear mind to know when you are being thought decide full words. His word is truth. The tree of life is word of God. 🙏🏼✝️ Keep in Hid word everyone!🙌🏻✝️🙏🏼❤️
Melissa, I’m so grateful to have found your channel and that you are talking about this. It’s helped me recognize beliefs I had from the around 2005-2015. It’s also helping me see where things in my church need correction. I’d really appreciate some ideas on how best to go about helping people see these things in our church communities in an effort to get us back to biblical truth.
OMG… yess!!!! I was going down this dangerous path too…. I read many of those books… I was fully embracing “ new thought” thinking I was an enlightened Christian. I returned to reading the Bible, getting back to the basics, and seeing Christianity in a new light. I am still trying to peel back some of my beliefs, and find the truth. I am so glad you are shedding light on this important issue.
Hello, fellow Christian! I hear you, having been on that same path. So glad you are on the straight and narrow path God has pointed out to us! Please consider removing secular vocabulary that can be dishonoring to God. You may be using omg reverently in your own mind, but in common speech people are using the name of God in place of four-letter word for excrement. It’s rampant in our culture. I’m telling you this in love and not in judgment. I had such a filthy mouth before I was saved that I can slip in tense moments! Praying for you as you continue your journey through sanctification. 🙏🏼❤️🤗
@@mratliff1277 - thank you- I sincerely appreciate you pointing this out, and will remove this from my vocabulary altogether. For me, it means oh my gosh… but you are so right, others may be replacing this with God, and I don’t want that. I accept and appreciate your loving correction, thank you.
I'm very thankful for your videos on "new thought." You're bringing light to a hidden darkness. And I agree, this is alarming and we must do all that we can to stop this from further infiltrating the church of God. Blessings
I, as a Pastor for 4 years but also saved over 30 years find your channel to be refreshing, poignant and exegetical. When the Lord saved me back in 1992 I would encounter those in Wicca, Muslims, cults and the like which pushed me into the biblical text prior to studying what they believed. I have a firm foundation in apologetics and the Tenets of seminary types of education even though I've never attended Seminary. Through the discerning of the Holy Spirit I catch without trying to New Age teachings from the pulpit. I enjoy listening to your exposition.
And the enemy has been so sneaky for centuries, misleading people (even believers) into thinking that somehow, they're "little gods." And that their "words" are powerful. So twisted.
@@user-fb4pe5ij4j Yep! I very clearly remember Jimmy Swaggart saying this on a Christian TV show. What made it sad is this was said less than a month after he'd initially been exposed for picking up hookers(and had been doing so for years). Little Gods....But you just got busted for picking up prostitutes. It disturbed me that he was back on TV after the scandal. Doesn't the Bible say leaders who commit offenses such as this are to step down from ministry? Same as one who steals money from the church, for example.
@@ForHisGlory828amen. There IS power in people's words for sure. Thats why the Bible also says we will one day give an account for every word we spoke. Matthew 12:36-37 ESV I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, [37] for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
There is power in our words. The Bible clearly says that there is power of life and death in the tongue. So, how are you going to explain that? If someone keeps gossiping, speaking death and just constantly discouraging themselves and others, what do you think is gonna happen to not only them but the people around them? Conversely, what do you think will happen to those who speak encouragement, life and good things?
100% agree and I see this new thought malarkey turning people I know from the truth. So glad I found your channel. I always knew there was something wrong in teachers like Joel Osteen and authors like Napoleon Hill. Just couldn’t put my finger on it. I just knew it was all inward to self instead of focusing on Jesus and the Bible. You have helped me put a name to it and defined it all. THANK YOU!! I have recommended you to many people who truly want to understand what has been happening to the church in general and to their churches specifically. I pray daily for His light to open the blinded and deceived hearts!
Melissa is the “Iraneaus” of the 21st Century! Iraneaus confronted the faux-Christianity of his day, Gnosticism. Thank you Melissa for your clarification and discernment on such a well-shrouded belief, feigning itself as Christianity and positivity. This is vitally important!
@@johnschaefer5220everyone thinks other people's denominational beliefs are heretical. It's crazy how that thought pattern goes all the way back to the early catholic church. I wasn't aware of that until recently
Hey Melissa, God has Sincerely blessed you with great intellectual, and Spiritual wisdom. I have been watching you Videos for some time now, and you have a wonderful way of explaining doctrinal "Truth's." May the Lord continue to Bless you in "Truth and Wisdom!"
Sometimes this deceit, the new thought you speak of, is brought before an unwitting congregation through a newly-called pastor whose “favorite person to quote is Richard Rohr.” I warned through tears and left the church. No one would listen. They had no clue. He resigned 2 years later. I’m glad you are exposing. We all need to know.
Sad to say that over a period of 40+ years, I have tried to tell ministers of churches I've attended that something going on in their church was unscriptural and dangerous, not ONCE has anyone listened.
Melissa you are doing a wonderful work for God’s church by explaining these teachings and teasing out the differences between new thought and new age and the cross over of the two with Christianity. My sister is mixed up in this mindset and your video explanations are helping me begin to dialog with her. So thank you. ❤ I do have a request. Are there any videos of yours in particular that you would suggest I send to her to watch? She’s open to it btw. If not, I would love for you to make a video that is specifically for friends and family caught up in New Thought and/or New Age. Kind of something to put a “pebble in their shoe” and get them rethinking some of their beliefs. ✝️
I have a cousin who thinks he hears from God and has convinced his father of the same. Not long ago, he threw himself on the floor at the gym and started crying and saying that some guy he knew (who had cancer) would be healed. Shortly after that, the man died. But my Uncle just doubles down. He reads that Bible for hours every day, crying over the pages and asking for answers, but then he puts his faith in his son and Julie Green. It's very sad that someone who claims to love the Lord - and I don't doubt his sincerity at all, can be so easily deceived. Help us Lord to know Your Truth.
I’ve been watching you for a while but always appreciate your reminders. Diligence is important. Not many in my circle want to hear about false teachers. Praying for souls. I was fast asleep and had no idea.
Thank you for stressing the differences in doctrine between Classical Christianity and New Thought. A friend of mine, well thought of by many, started stating many of these things. He eventually was experimenting with things based on vibration. We parted company part way through all this, I can only hope this moral man found his way back.
So many of the things you read from those New Thought books are things I was taught at my former church. Praise God for bringing my husband and I out of that church (a Word of Faith, prosperity gospel church) and into a biblical church. Any advice for reaching family members and friends who are deceived by New Thought / Word of Faith / prosperity gospel? My parents and my husband’s parents are still very much caught up in this.
Ty Melissa. I was saved about 40 yrs ago. I was reading books by Kenneth Hagin and Charles Capps that basically taught the same things. Praise God I did start reading Warren Smith's books as well as Constance Cumby which did show me the errors in my theology. I did not know anything about how to study the Bible with correct hermeneutics until the last year. Thank God for His mercy and grace in keeping me.
Preach my dear friend and sister. It comes with a cost. You know that. Know you will be prayed for. Endure. It's all about Him. Everything. XXOO -Linda Dodd, Cedaredge, CO
It was brought to my attention as a decades-long, former Independent Baptist that many of my entrenched beliefs were actually denominational tradition. At first I couldn’t puzzle out what this even meant since I was so deeply entrenched. When I realized indeed that hunks of my “theology” were tradition, not biblical, I abandoned them. Sola Scriptura.
This is why it is so important to be attending a church that teaches the Bible and the whole gospel. Many churches have watered down the gospel and are including political and social propagsnda in thier sermons. Deceiving and robbing people of the truth, the gospel and understanding the "grace" of God. 😢
I went to Osteen's church for a couple of years. Loved his church. I left to live in Turkey for 10 years (wasn't an active Christian) and shortly after returning I was hit by the Holy Spirit hard. My prayer life and Bible reading tripled from when I was a younger Christian. It was like instant maturity. Haha. Not sure what happened, but God brought me back and in much better condition.
Oh wow, the open monologue was me! 😢 I’m so grateful Jesus didn’t give up on me! Thankfully, I heard HIS voice through the noise and I left all that behind.
Which bible? Their are hundreds of different versions of the bible. There are MANY people in the church who get all over your case if you are not reading the King Jim version.
@@saxmanjpr5092 king James is good but a word for word translation is what you really want like the ESV is good I used to be a KJV only girl but have recently started reading the ESV and it's very well translated and much easier to understand if you don't understand old English but the Holy Spirit really needs to lead you when you read. The niv n NLT are thought for thought translations so they aren't exactly great. The message n passion translation are completely awful and are not biblical. Don't worry about church people they often celebrate Halloween and participate in witchcraft. Knowing God is most important 🤗
@@jenshively5447 , YES , thanks for your reply. However ,I do read KJV. In conjunction with the Amplified BIBLE . I find the Amp. Is a VERY excellent use for studying the deep literal meanings of the writer's of GOD'S word. ----- * Translated from the original Languages. * Parentheses , Brackets etc. etc . ** If anyone hasn't seen the Amplified BIBLE . Make sure that you get with the above !!
Well done. Ty. It’s all about elevation of self, rebellion against submitting to God, being “equal” to God and pride. Everything that the Bible clearing warns about.
Hey! Great Video! When someone dies unexpectedly, It bothers me when someone says "Well, God is in Control" (not a Bible Verse) as if God goes around giving people cancer. Every problem on planet Earth is a direct or indirect result of sin. Jesus is the only answer we have as Christians...and He is more than enough!
@@kimrobinson6285 sin and death/disease entered the world through the fall of the first Adam, death and sin were conquered by the second Adam, (Christ). This is of course an oversimplification.
New thought in churches drove me from God. I think part of me knew it was wrong, but then I fell into ‘spirituality’ for 2/3 of my life. The Holy Spirit came to me in my darkest hours and I have returned to God and was baptized. My new church is scripture based and feels like home. I’m imperfect but redeemed and am trying to retrain my brain and heart and return to my Christian roots while honoring God even in my struggles.
Robert Schuler was one of the original new thoughters. My mom used to turn on the Crystal Cathedral on a Sunday morning as we were getting ready for church.
I always discerned something was off with Robert Schuler but I could not put my finger on it. Mind you I was just a child when watching him but even then I knew what he was teaching was wrong
Yes, absolutely right! When returning to the faith after 30 years in "the wilderness", the first thing I did was to read the entire Bible (for the first time), from beginning to end over a period of 18 months. Its the best filter against that sort of pollution.
It sounds like those a Mormon believes. One of their Articles of Faith is “Man is what God once was. God is what man may become”. I grew up LDS, and this is the number one reason I started to question EVERYTHING they were teaching. Now I continually pray for my family that are still in that church.
So please explain how you could go from a first hand account explanation of the godhead to a creed explanation of the god head clearly a man created understanding?
Oh how right you are! As you spoke I remembered when “the Secret” was popular, I was skeptical but I wrote in my notebook how scripture said similar concepts! During a really desperate time in my life, the answer was “Kenneth Copeland’s teachings”! I thank God I was saved while under a scripture teaching and preaching pastor, who taught seeking the Holy Spirits wisdom and studying the whole Bible! I grinch over these episodes, with lessons learned I am fearfully aware how easy it is to fall for the deceivers tricks! He always says : “it looks good, you can be like God “knowing good from evil”, and you can have it all! You have pointed out even more pitfalls I didn’t take seriously enough, thank you!
Knowing good from evil is from the tree of the knowledge of good & evil. We are to be living and learning in the tree of life- Holy Spirit. Our knowledge is a tiny micron compared to God’s. In short, our knowledge should only come from reading and discerning, through the Holy Spirit.
Back in the 1990's one of the members of the church worked in a "Family Christian Bookstore" and declared that the majority of the books in there were not Biblically accurate. I was astonished at that time, but as I have grown and learned, I see the slippery slope of "Christian" writing that is focused more on me and how I am to live, rather than on Jesus and how he lives in me. One of the last straws at that church for me was when the leadership engaged in Enneagram. Definitely New Thought.
Thanks Mellisa for the information on new age and new thought. After the information you gave on new age vs new thought, I understand it better. I have a family member who was expressing new thought. At that time, I did not recognize it.
Melissa - New thought is not new at all. It's just Gnosticism. Colossians addresses this. Help your readers understand Gnosticism and compare it with the true Gospel. When you show the flaws, lift up the truth next to it so your listeners can see the differences. Thank you for sharing this. Keep up the good work.
This month commemorates about 15 years with the Lord for me. I sat alone for about a year with a Bible, no church, no people to listen to, and read cover to cover. I told myself, "if this is true, it will destroy my worldview and my presumptions, and I must face it and not flinch mo matter how unpleasant." And the Lord certainly wrecked me with the truth and I love Him for it. Over the years of being with the Lord and getting to know Him, through Scripture and His Spirit and life; I have learned that many people who are revered or looked up to, who give speeches and grandiose advice and write books on these vague spiritualisms...... Know absolutely nothing, especially not of the Lord, and make up the most delusional nonsense. But more amazing yet, has been to see the masses of people who smile and nod and embrace their delusion. It is no wonder that Israel ran after the Baalim.
this is such an important subject!! especially in regards to your previous videos about MLM's where they are literally teaching new thought 101 to their "teams". after 10 years, i'm so glad we escaped those false teachings - we were taught everything you said & more. they caused a *major* faith crisis for us. it's so freeing to pray for God's will instead of demanding things 🥴 thank God for His mercy.
Yes yes yes. I have been thinking on your ophra video. It’s so strange that like you, I became a Christian then got led from really getting to know my saviour by wrong doctrine--which I now know was no ones fault but mine because I never read His book. I went to church and listened to tidbits of the bible but even the churches ,and I attended a few in my search for something I just felt wasn’t right, never preached the whole Christ....just the fuzzy soft teddy bear Christ. But something deep in me( the Holy Spirit... and can I just say... Thankyou Lord for your spirit...) kept poking me that so much of all I heard around me that always sounded so uplifting andChristian just kept souring my insides. Then God just pushed me to the wall and I felt I just had to read the bible and I did... again and again. And wow! Then I started to have the scales fall away. But You gave me words I could use to describe the spiritual darkness that covers over most church’s and when I open Pinterest and read some cute uplifting but spiritually wrong sayings I smile and say “thankyou my dear”
Great discussion. What I came to realize as someone who was exposed to New Age and New Thought is that Christ did not come to deliver social justice. He came for the salvation of the existence of mankind. Jesus was not political and certainly did not espouse finding answers through our material life here on earth.
I still have much to learn but after completing the “Bible in the Year” podcast I definitely noticed my discernment sharpened. Sometimes it was blazingly obvious, and other times it was a subtle “this doesn’t sound right.” The first time around I listened to the podcast during my morning commute. I plan to go through it again but with Bible and highlighter in hand.
Right, we’re all growing. So we need to be more gracious to one another and seek how we can build one another up in love. “He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.” Acts 18:26
Very good teaching! I have been in sales all my adult life and always been hesitant about “calling into existence” what I am “seeking”…seemed like it just was not biblical & this teaching has helped me understand! Thank you!
This video message is so important. We have to first consider, "I may be deceived." And we really should be posing that possibility about _everything_ we believe, except the existence of Jesus Christ Himself. We should be praying to God, "Remove from me every false thing I believe about You."
You are so correct about the importance of searching scripture and discerning truth of God from the lies of the devil. The devil knows God's word too but in a twisted up fashion, just like in the Garden of Eden.
Nailed it, Melissa! Ignorance of scripture leads us to invent the God that we desire--- not the God who is. Even the great characters/writers of scripture asked, "Why, Lord?", so it is not surprising that we do the same. However, they did not have the extensive written record that we have, which thoroughly describes our God---what He will/will not do, what He will/will not allow, what He said/did not say.
Thank you miss for your service to our lord..if I may, I surrendered to our lord in 2018 beginning him to help me...I didn't want to kill myself and I didn't know how to live..complete mess me and my life was..anyway, lord heard me..since, I surrender daily, I got baptised (again) in an orthodox coptic Egyptian church, where I live in England..I heard our lord telling us to: deny ourselves, carry our cross,and then,follow him...am still stuck on: deny myself...very tough one..I used to listen to all those attractive so called Christians, I don't anymore...I try to stay simple, live simple, spend time with our lord daily...asking him to teach me daily...God forgive those who are worshipping themselves now a days, rather than keep focused on our lord..he is the source of all goodness..he is faithful our lord and very compassionate and loving and forgiving...am glad he never gave up on me, when I did...all glory to our lord and saviour, lord jesus..amen
Best take-away: “Those who don’t read & study their Bible consistently are the easiest to deceive by those who misuse it.” 👏👏 Great teaching in this video!
May I suggest it is not those how do not read the bible but instead those who fail to dwell in the secret place of the most high continually are the easiest to deceive. The Secret parable Mysteries of the bible are revealed in the Secret place of Prayerful Meditation Daily to All People of every Race and religion. God does not need a book to reveal the secrets of the universe but what He does need is a anointed Soul = mind to Hear God's thoughts that leads to Godly Character that manifests to the World the Loving Kindness and Faithfulness of the Creator.
Naw. U can read the bible night and day and get deceived. I did
@@NFTeve Dear one you are correct because the bible is only a manual that can add is helping a person understand how they are fearfully and wonderfully made but the substance is knowing your self and how you are formed and function on the inside. Very few church going Christians even know what the Greek word Christian means because they have been indoctrinated with Church religious insanity Christianity. In reality every human being is a little Jesus at physical birth and must be Christened with Divine Consciousness to become a mature Son or Daughter of the Most High Creator's. Even The Jesus of the Bible did not become Christ = Anointed until He was around 30 years of age. Meaning of Christian = Christ = Anointed and Tian= little literally means little or Child anointed one. The Bible is a spiritual book in physical form and it is no different than any man written Religious Holy book because they all contain the same mystery of the Human Body's Creation, Function and Purpose. Every Human being is there every own Kingdom, Temple, Priest. Prophet and most of all Sacrifice. Ever bible story is about you and your Scrip you are playing out as you grow into maturity day by day. True Scripture = Your-scrip written in your very own personal DNA at Birth which contains your personal Book of Life. Study Human anatomy, Histology, Biology and Hematology and know your self and then you will know God. May you Know and Grow daily in your personal life journey to Spiritual maturity and you do not need a bible to be Anointed with Christ Consciousness. Spell Anatomy and when breaking it down spells An - Atom-Me that relates to the bible story of Adam ans Eve which we all are. Inner Love, Peace and Blessing to you.
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Then get some glasses kid.
Lack of knowledge is why you perish
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Here’s an “I AM” statement I never hear from New Thought people: I AM a sinner in need of a savior. THAT’s the only I AM statement we need to make, and the only one that actually has the power to save us.
Amen Brother!
Amen!
I would never intentionally use an "I Am" statement because that is the name of God.
I thought the same thing.
@@ktmkarl The blind man healed by Jesus uses "I am"
Discernment is SO important.
....and good doctrine. Be a Barean.
Amen. I keep telling people this. In the darkest of days we are in, the enemy is on the prowl everywhere. Discernment helps you determine what is right and what is wrong.
How about tithing???
I was preached to that we be cursed if I do not commit faithfully over and above. I thought Christians were redeemed from the curse of the law?? Then pastor keep preaching old covenant blessings and cursing?..why
@@jadutch7361 ...well, there us a mixture of 'laws' that do translate over to the New Testament and a whole lot that does not. And there blessings in the OT that apply to all people who follow Him and there are blessings specifically for Israel either during their nationhood or to a point in history, such as that made to Abraham that some Christians think are transferred to the church but are not.
@1969cmp appreciate it!!
I mean the point of axis for Christians is Jesus fulfilled the law for believers on the cross, and the curtain of the temple was torn in two so we have ( through the completed work of Christ, on the cross) have direct access to Gid as our Heavenly Father..... we are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus.
One of the biggest issues is people don’t want to take correction. I have been studying the Word for 22 plus years daily and I will gladly take correction because I would rather know truth than be right. Correction and judgment are completely different things.
We must be teachable, or we will never receive the wisdom and understanding that God desires to give us when we strive to obey and abide.
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yes this is quite frustrating.
Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Amen! 40+ for me and still studying and learning.
My grandma became a Christian at 12yo. She went to my church for 30 years. A church that had very solid theology. HOWEVER, they never targeted wrong beliefs or thought that anyone in our church could have had them.
When my grandma was dying, she was terrified. Because she believed that she hadn’t done “enough” for God. Her friends in that church also told her that her time wasn’t up yet because she “had more to do.” It came out around then that she watched Joyce Meyer and Joel Osteen everyday. I also remember now that she had a copy of The Secret that no one ever pointed out as false to her. Even once she died, her friends attempted raising her because they didn’t think it possible. This situation really galvanized in me at 19 that this wasn’t the truth of the gospel. So in a morbid way, I’m grateful for having watched it happen.
I gather nobody was there with your grandma to pray with her and hear her confession or whatever she might have truly needed...? 😢
@@Seraphina-o4y Preaching the gospel is great. But spend some time too to warn against sects and wrong teachings.
@@thekingsdaughter4233 hear what confession? The original posters whole statement is based on her confession that she felt like she had not done enough... Is that a confession or just a point of conversation? Surely you're not thinking that she needed an intercessor to go over all of her already confessed and forgiven sins without the help of someone, other than Jesus Christ. I guess I don't understand this comment response... Or if there may be a typo involved.
@@kimtonearts I think I understand what they were saying, but it might have been badly worded. Original poster said their grandma was terrified because she thought she hadn't done enough, meaning she thought by doing good works she could earn her way into heaven, which is a wrong belief, not a confession. She didn't need someone to confess to, because that's not what she believed would save her, she believed she needed more time on earth to do more good works. The response by @thekingsdaughter4233 could have been worded better, something like, "I gather there was no one with your grandma to pray with her and bring her back to Christ, who died for her sins, so she would be saved through him?".
Thank you!! As an ex Mormon, and also ex new-ager, and now new born again believer, your videos are priceless!!!
My wife’s dad recently lost his wife to cancer and both were Assembly of God/Pentecostal. Their church had a heavy focus of pray it and claim it, prosperity, and a belief that if something bad happens you didn’t pray hard enough. Which has lead her dad, at 70+ to go through a bit of a crisis of faith.
Thankfully my wife and I have been going through a bit of a relearning phase of our faith.
It’s a delicate balance of trying to explain to him that, pain and suffering is a part of this life. Explaining that we worship at the feet of a God who died a horrific death of pain and suffering. That Paul’s life was a testimony to this, and even with his steadfast faith, lived a life of imprisonment and suffering: while at the same time, being devoted to Christ.
It’s a slow go, but these concepts of “become a Christian and life will be perfect” do more damage than good.
Thank you! Stated perfectly! I have chronic pain from lupus and bone and muscles issues. My faith in him will always be there! I may suffer here ,but one day I won't! God bless
Not all who are A/G-pentecostal believe name it claim prosperity! My pastor reiterates ALL THE TIME read the Bible so you're not deceived & yet a lot, in any denomination/fellowship do not. I used to be like that too but praise God not anymore. So please don't lump all pentecostals in the same basket 😊
Amen! Thank God He is restoring you a simple faith.
I've been A/G for years, raised Baptist. I've never felt or been taught in A/G that one can't get sick and die. Quite balanced and depending on God's will. I suppose all A/G pastors have a bent, especially in different parts of the country. The last 10 years, though, New Age and New Thought has definitely crept into many more A/Gs
It is something we all need to be cautious of. I went to a cessationist Baptist church for years. Amazingly enough, I constantly heard I was sick because I was not right with God. Zero compassion and a lot of judgement. No offers for prayer. Turns out I did have some serious conditions that were killing me. Through prayer, pressing in to find the right doctors and making life changes all have helped me to get my life back. I did have a crisis of belief but I did finally come back to Him and building a new foundation with scripture.
Echoes of the 'Name it and claim it' movement. Brilliant exposé, Melissa. Thank God when I was saved 38 years ago, the deep errors were only beginning to creep in. With the Vineyard Movement ( signs and wonders) Kansas City Prophets, ( Prophetic Movement) and others. It's way worse now since that door was opened.
The health and wealth gospel is indeed incredibly entwined with New-thought beliefs.
Amen! Something is wrong and but one just couldn't put the finger on it. The secret is daily prayerful reading of the Bible.
Thanks Melissa! Now more than ever we (christians) need to study the Word of God!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"You'll never recognize a counterfeit if you don't know the original." - Christy Jordan.
"Go home... read your Bible" -Zachary Bauer
Take it to church and read it … check everything the speaker is saying… be like a berean
Amen 🙌🏽
I don't know anything about New Thought, but it sounds an awful lot like "Old Thought" (i.e., Gnosticism). A lot of the strange phrasing quoted in this video is typical of Gnostic writing. The author wants to make it sound difficult by using unnatural syntactical structures so that you think they're smarter than they really are.
Just food for thought…as I was training to be a bank teller, our course on counterfeit money was to study the real thing so in depth that we were recognizing very convincing counterfeits by the end.
Why do you read that garbage? I've never even heard of half those people. Yeah, some of it sounds good, but it really sounds fake to me. Oh well!
Today's spiritual landscape is a minefield! I am so thankful that God is patient with us. If you are willing to be corrected, and you're really seeking truth, He leads you to it.
Amen!
Amen!
Yes!
I always like to think I am not the smartest person in the room, what if I have questions about something important, I would hope there's someone I could go to . . .
It's why an early church father wrote, Against Heresies.
John's epistles Waa also to address gnostism. Then there was Simon the sorcerer who some link to Simon Magnus, an gnostic 'influencer'.
In the 19th the compromise with Darwinian evolution, the growth of higher criticism. The mid 20th century is the birth of modern word of faith garble.
I love your way of addressing the hypocrisy and the misinformation that is out there made even worse with social media. I am in full agreement about the need to read the Bible for oneself to truly know and learn from The Source regarding our Christian faith and our walk with the Lord. I started reading the Bible in its entirety each year and have been doing so for the past 4 years. It is amazing how much I missed in the past by reading scripture sporadically and piecemeal really, with no continuity or background/context of what I am trying to understand. I encourage everyone who wants a better relationship with the Lord and for wisdom and discernment READ THE BIBLE FOR YOURSELF! 🙏🏻♥️
Hello Donna! Do you read it cover to cover or chronologically? Im curious if you have done one or the other or both. And what would be your recommendation.
Context, context, context for sure!
I would highly suggest the bible recap. @viapia143
Great practice! I did this a few times in my early walk we with the Lord. It's also good to switch to topical studies for deeper understanding. I'm back to reading it through in a year. As much as I have been through the Word I still run into passages that leave me wondering how I never noticed them before.
The source? His name is JESUS
I'm so proud of you for teaching the truth to the younger generation. I'm 75 and was beginning to feel the youth were being neglected. Never hold your peace young lady.
Amen!
@@suzanneflowers2230she is what she is calling unbiblical! Just as the pharassiee in scripture thought they were right!
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Expound upon that.
@@terrypaul7706 Why do you say that? I’m genuinely asking, because I haven’t heard anything on her channel that I would deem “New Age”… 🤔.
@@terrypaul7706 Is it Biblical to make accusations and refuse to substantiate them when asked to do so?
This was me. I was so tied up in this toxicity. I cried out to Jesus and repented and was rescued from all these lies. Humbled and begged for mercy. Praise Jesus!!! There are wolves in sheep’s clothing everywhere. I read the Bible and pray for wisdom and understanding!! Another toxic teaching: “A Course in Miracles”
Yes amen! Throw away a course in miracles!! It’s a counterfeit, and WILL lead the reader astray.
Good warning on New Thought Christianity which is a variety of the old Gnostic heresy.
Yes I was thinking the same
There is nothing new under the sun. Thank you for reminding and warning us❤
high majority of all "christian" beliefs and sects are full of gnostic beliefs, like the whole "body/soul/spirit flesh suit" stuff.
Why do you think the Catholic faith got rid of the Gnostics. The got rid of them because they were a threat, because they were telling the truth.
I used to have that book “The secret” but when I started to read the Bible I throw those self help books. The Bible is our manual for life. 🙏🏼📖👈🏼
That book was the source of my family's falling apart starting about 2016.
Same!!!
I fell for it too then I learned that the people responsible for the video production were cut out of it just a few days after the video was released, so some people have the original with Esther and Jerry Hicks. I started seeing little animated videos on RUclips quoting Esther so I bought a couple of their books and accidentally read them out of order, so I think I read the 2nd one first or maybe I ordered them that way. But I learned about “Abraham” and started feeling uncomfortable with that. Then I read the book about how the couple had gone to a medium, a show with a lady like Long Island Medium that told them of things no one could have known. So Esther and Jerry really wanted to learn more about it and scheduled a one on one session, and Jerry was not as in tune as Esther was, anyway, she learned how to Channel Abraham… or a collective of entities on the other side. So when Esther is quoting Abraham she is in a meditative state and these “spirits” are talking thru her. YIKES! But I fell for the whole positive affirmations and universal energy hook line and sinker!
@@valerief1231 so did you carry on with those books?
Same!!
Seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
AMEN!
Tickling of ears
I had such a similar experience with these type of beliefs. I called myself a Christian and also read tarots and used crystals to try and "hear from God". I was so lost, but God reached out to me and I am saved by Jesus's blood. I am forever thankful, grateful and growing. Amen❤✝️❤️
Many new Christians are not discipled after salvation. I backslid for ten years because of that. The Church needs to correct this.
New Christians also need Christian friends. I came back to the Lord last year after many years away. Got rid of my "friends" because I could not get free from some things if I didn't. Started attending a church that is great except for one thing. I'm been in a Bible study group, volunteer at church activities, and on the prayer team. After almost a year I still have no Christian friends despite reaching out. I need more fellowship than an hour and a half on Sunday and an hour on Wednesday. Forget being discipled; I can't even get one of them to go to lunch, my treat! Someone told me church is not a social club. I get that, but shouldn't we be different? I got this treatment in "the world".
Amen and Amen
I have lately encountered Christians that have been doctrine with new thought and I was puzzled why they had this “thinking” and sense of superiority. Thank you for sharing and helping me understand more how they were so confused.
I had the “I am” app up until last week, something felt off so I googled the parent company and it’s literally a group of developers creating new age apps. Just watched your video and this is confirmation. Thank you for sharing!
‘Those who don’t read and study their bibles consistently, are the easiest to deceive, by those who misuse it’ SPOT. ON.
Yes, my husband does not read the Bible. He listens to preachers. He listens to the Bible on CD, but usually he talks through the message. He thinks he cannot be deceived. I told him if you think that you cannot be deceived you will be deceived mad but it’s true. You have to read the Bible, if you don’t will be deceived, and God will allow you to be deceived because you choose not to study this word
I studied the bible at a bible college, was into it for 12 years. Still I got fooled by Napoleon Hill and his pack‘s teachings. I got back to the bible and prayer liffe. Be on alert, even if you do read the Bible. Even Isaak Asimov has a commentary on the Scriptures, he was a nonbeliever.
@@auroraguzbeth2255 Very true. We still need to be careful and ask the Holy Spirit to help us. The last 1-2 years I have been asking that non stop, and I have come to realize many things and people I once believed are things and people I should not have. More and more I am sticking to scripture and even if I don’t fully understand, I trust I will eventually.
The glasses do make you look more credible Dr. Melissa 🤭 Thank you for these revelations!
“It’s not an excuse, but it is a reason”, I LOVE this. We need to understand why things happen so we can learn and grow, not so we can blame and accuse. It’s all about personal growth and improvement.
I was almost 28 years deep into New Thought until I got finally saved and delivered by the biblical Jesus. All glory to our Savior. Halleluja
After my conversion, I went right into New Thought. It was the Word of Faith teachings. So thankful, as I continued to learn about the Word, I started seeing New Age, Mysticism, and other false beliefs being mixed in with truth. Wasn’t even aware of New Thought until a few years ago. It became abundantly clear I was taught and followed lies. New Thought is rampant among Word of Faith, and NAR. Praying for all led astray and held captive by these false teachings.
O foolish Galatians, who hath BEWITCHED you, that you should not obey the truth...
Our pastor just preached this verse! We need to pray for discernment & READ THE WORD!
Psalms 119:142 Amen!
Our foolishment is we get so free after reading Galatians we throw away all God's laws and obedience to Christ. And live in freedom, ready to follow our desires of the flesh...
The major problems with so-called Christians is that they do NOT read the Bible first themselves. They listen to others who have ulterior motives and who manipulate them into taking certain stances.
The Bible answers lots of questions about things that are happening but most people will reject those answers. Why? The answers don’t line up with what the televangelists charlatans say. Hence the deception.
It should not be strange. When the disciples asked Jesus about the signs of the end times, the FIRST thing Jesus talked about was deception.
*“Jesus answered them, Be careful that no one misleads you [deceiving you and leading you into error].”*
Matthew 24:4 AMPC
If that isn’t what is happening today, then nothing in the Bible is true.
@@yankees4551 We are free not to sin ! Before you're saved you will choose sin every time.
Read chapter 6 of the Roman letter.
Mellisa, you are beyond your years! Even though I've been able to sniff the stink out at a gut level, it's been much more difficult to define it specifially. You have defined it so well! New Thought is a new term for my ears, but I've been very aware of prosperity doctrine for many, many years, and I've been aware of the most flamboyant among them. Now I'm even better armed against their deceptions and how to better define them to my younger brothers and sisters in Christ. May God bless you for your obedience and willingness to expose the deception!
This is why it is SO IMPORTANT to stand on the Word. Study the Bible. "All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." 2 Timothy 3:16-17
Spot on!!!
God gave us His Word so we wouldn't be deceived!!!
I have been a Christian for over 50 years and have almost (Thank the Lord that I wasn't) been caught up in these lies. It hurt when I read, and understood, John 16:33. We will have trouble. Period. I can't "speak into it" and make it better. I can't claim I'm a victorious Christian so this shouldn't happen. I can only pray through it and learn from the journey. Each time I hear you talk about this, Melissa, I'm reminded of teachings I have had in the past that I've backed away from. Didn't know there was a name for it.
I had a lot of this thought taught to me as a teen. It’s very harmful, especially to newer Christians who embrace the love of a church full of nice people who don’t read their bibles.
Sometimes the greatest victories are going through the hardest problems in coming out with our faith in tact
I was thinking of that exact scripture as she was speaking. We WILL have trouble. God helps us get through it when we submit and know that His ways are not our ways. Still, sometimes we (as humans) don’t get through it. Our earthly bodies pass away. But He is there all along guiding and comforting us through the struggle.
My favorite scripture is 2 Corinthians 12:9. “When I am weak, He is strong.” I am always weak and fallible but thank God He is strong and always faithful.
Excellent video. Thank you for the work you do.
Much of this “New Thought” seems very akin to Gnosticism with its emphasis on “special knowledge”.
And the level of biblical illiteracy in Christendom today I’m sure grieves the Lord.
This video also brings to mind 2 Timothy 4:2-4: “preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.”
I don't know if you remember Robert Schuller and his "Hour of Power" show from the Crystal Cathedral in the 80's and 90's. I don't know if he was a new thought person or not, but even as a teenager, his positivity gospel struck a discordant note in my discernment. Some of the authors you've shared certainly remind me of him the few times I stayed tuned in for the message (I usually changed the channel after the soloist was done).
Hi Melissa, sounds like we transferred out of the same club. I praise Jesus for the Truth. I am a student of the Word now. ❤ Thank you for all that you do to bring truth and light to us all!
Yeah, me too!! I woke up when I saw my homeschooling mom buddies leaving Christianity behind and I just couldn't leave my Jesus, although I was in bed with all sorts of new thought gurus like they were! God brought me to repentance and I threw away a bunch of books, unfollowed people and began reading my Bible daily. PTL!!!
Many women especially can fall victim to this. It’s a slippery slope when we go with FEELINGS. Many female ‘Christian leaders’ teach things like ‘you are enough’ and ‘listen to your heart’ type things. No to both of those ideas because the Bible says we aren’t enough and your heart cannot be trusted. You hit the nail on the head when you said for you, this happened by not reading the Bible and instead relying on other books written by people who are mostly ‘new thought’. Another great video, Melissa!
U ain’t enuff, sister
Washin yo face ain’t doin it neither
U need to be resurrected! Praise God!
Good comment, greenfields
Although, after being born again, we are supposed to be healed, equipped, and one with the One who can do all things...
@godandfamilyalways8149 yes. I AM enough because of the work of Christ. God SEES me as enough because of the righteousness of Christ. Not because of me, but because of him.
@debramains yasss 🤍
Scripture is the remedy for deception. This is sooo true. I'm on my own journey like this. Since I started reading the Bible exegetically, I have noticed that there are so many new age, new thought and other ungodly teachings in our churches even here in Africa.
Thank you for this.
Right right right Melissa. Ex new-ager here. Found the truth many years ago, thankfully, praise God!
Everyone around me has their own ideas about God and they don't read or study the Bible. Thanks for helping me know how to confidently talk to them about it.
This is why is so important for us to keep reading your bibles. Over and over again. It’s how you keep a sober and clear mind to know when you are being thought decide full words. His word is truth. The tree of life is word of God. 🙏🏼✝️ Keep in Hid word everyone!🙌🏻✝️🙏🏼❤️
Melissa, I’m so grateful to have found your channel and that you are talking about this. It’s helped me recognize beliefs I had from the around 2005-2015. It’s also helping me see where things in my church need correction. I’d really appreciate some ideas on how best to go about helping people see these things in our church communities in an effort to get us back to biblical truth.
OMG… yess!!!! I was going down this dangerous path too…. I read many of those books…
I was fully embracing “ new thought” thinking I was an enlightened Christian. I returned to reading the Bible, getting back to the basics, and seeing Christianity in a new light. I am still trying to peel back some of my beliefs, and find the truth. I am so glad you are shedding light on this important issue.
Hello, fellow Christian! I hear you, having been on that same path. So glad you are on the straight and narrow path God has pointed out to us! Please consider removing secular vocabulary that can be dishonoring to God. You may be using omg reverently in your own mind, but in common speech people are using the name of God in place of four-letter word for excrement. It’s rampant in our culture. I’m telling you this in love and not in judgment. I had such a filthy mouth before I was saved that I can slip in tense moments! Praying for you as you continue your journey through sanctification. 🙏🏼❤️🤗
@@mratliff1277 - thank you- I sincerely appreciate you pointing this out, and will remove this from my vocabulary altogether. For me, it means oh my gosh… but you are so right, others may be replacing this with God, and I don’t want that.
I accept and appreciate your loving correction, thank you.
❤👍🏼🙏🏼🤗
I'm very thankful for your videos on "new thought." You're bringing light to a hidden darkness. And I agree, this is alarming and we must do all that we can to stop this from further infiltrating the church of God. Blessings
I, as a Pastor for 4 years but also saved over 30 years find your channel to be refreshing, poignant and exegetical. When the Lord saved me back in 1992 I would encounter those in Wicca, Muslims, cults and the like which pushed me into the biblical text prior to studying what they believed. I have a firm foundation in apologetics and the Tenets of seminary types of education even though I've never attended Seminary. Through the discerning of the Holy Spirit I catch without trying to New Age teachings from the pulpit. I enjoy listening to your exposition.
Great job, very thorough. It reminds me of something I think you said a while back. It’s a repeat of the original lie “you can be like God.”
And the enemy has been so sneaky for centuries, misleading people (even believers) into thinking that somehow, they're "little gods." And that their "words" are powerful. So twisted.
Proverbs 18:21....
@@user-fb4pe5ij4j Yep! I very clearly remember Jimmy Swaggart saying this on a Christian TV show. What made it sad is this was said less than a month after he'd initially been exposed for picking up hookers(and had been doing so for years). Little Gods....But you just got busted for picking up prostitutes. It disturbed me that he was back on TV after the scandal. Doesn't the Bible say leaders who commit offenses such as this are to step down from ministry? Same as one who steals money from the church, for example.
@@ForHisGlory828amen. There IS power in people's words for sure. Thats why the Bible also says we will one day give an account for every word we spoke. Matthew 12:36-37 ESV
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, [37] for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
@@ForHisGlory828Just what I was going to say!
There is power in our words. The Bible clearly says that there is power of life and death in the tongue. So, how are you going to explain that?
If someone keeps gossiping, speaking death and just constantly discouraging themselves and others, what do you think is gonna happen to not only them but the people around them? Conversely, what do you think will happen to those who speak encouragement, life and good things?
Nothing glib about this message Melissa! Always enjoying your well-spoken, thoughtfully and carefully spoken messages. All Glory to God!
It’s so important that you are speaking out about this. Bless you
100% agree and I see this new thought malarkey turning people I know from the truth. So glad I found your channel. I always knew there was something wrong in teachers like Joel Osteen and authors like Napoleon Hill. Just couldn’t put my finger on it. I just knew it was all inward to self instead of focusing on Jesus and the Bible. You have helped me put a name to it and defined it all. THANK YOU!! I have recommended you to many people who truly want to understand what has been happening to the church in general and to their churches specifically. I pray daily for His light to open the blinded and deceived hearts!
Melissa is the “Iraneaus” of the 21st Century! Iraneaus confronted the faux-Christianity of his day, Gnosticism. Thank you Melissa for your clarification and discernment on such a well-shrouded belief, feigning itself as Christianity and positivity. This is vitally important!
Except that Saint Irenaeus was Catholic and would find much of her theology heretical...
@@johnschaefer5220everyone thinks other people's denominational beliefs are heretical. It's crazy how that thought pattern goes all the way back to the early catholic church. I wasn't aware of that until recently
Hey Melissa, God has Sincerely blessed you with great intellectual, and Spiritual wisdom. I have been watching you Videos for some time now, and you have a wonderful way of explaining doctrinal "Truth's." May the Lord continue to Bless you in "Truth and Wisdom!"
Your Content is brilliant, your delivery is better… You are appreciated!😊
Sometimes this deceit, the new thought you speak of, is brought before an unwitting congregation through a newly-called pastor whose “favorite person to quote is Richard Rohr.” I warned through tears and left the church. No one would listen. They had no clue. He resigned 2 years later. I’m glad you are exposing. We all need to know.
Our church's new pastor (middle aged but fresh out of seminary) has some of this influence in his thinking. I hope he will grow out of it.
Sad to say that over a period of 40+ years, I have tried to tell ministers of churches I've attended that something going on in their church was unscriptural and dangerous, not ONCE has anyone listened.
Melissa you are doing a wonderful work for God’s church by explaining these teachings and teasing out the differences between new thought and new age and the cross over of the two with Christianity. My sister is mixed up in this mindset and your video explanations are helping me begin to dialog with her. So thank you. ❤ I do have a request. Are there any videos of yours in particular that you would suggest I send to her to watch? She’s open to it btw. If not, I would love for you to make a video that is specifically for friends and family caught up in New Thought and/or New Age. Kind of something to put a “pebble in their shoe” and get them rethinking some
of their beliefs. ✝️
I have a cousin who thinks he hears from God and has convinced his father of the same. Not long ago, he threw himself on the floor at the gym and started crying and saying that some guy he knew (who had cancer) would be healed. Shortly after that, the man died. But my Uncle just doubles down. He reads that Bible for hours every day, crying over the pages and asking for answers, but then he puts his faith in his son and Julie Green. It's very sad that someone who claims to love the Lord - and I don't doubt his sincerity at all, can be so easily deceived. Help us Lord to know Your Truth.
I think your cousin may have an actual psychological disorder
I’ve been watching you for a while but always appreciate your reminders. Diligence is important. Not many in my circle want to hear about false teachers. Praying for souls. I was fast asleep and had no idea.
Thank you for this message of truth, God bless you!
Fell into the Latter Rain/ Sons of God movements. Went to a WOF church. Everything you’re saying I agree with.
Thank you for giving a name to what I am seeing all around me.
Thank you for stressing the differences in doctrine between Classical Christianity and New Thought. A friend of mine, well thought of by many, started stating many of these things. He eventually was experimenting with things based on vibration. We parted company part way through all this, I can only hope this moral man found his way back.
So many of the things you read from those New Thought books are things I was taught at my former church. Praise God for bringing my husband and I out of that church (a Word of Faith, prosperity gospel church) and into a biblical church.
Any advice for reaching family members and friends who are deceived by New Thought / Word of Faith / prosperity gospel? My parents and my husband’s parents are still very much caught up in this.
Ty Melissa. I was saved about 40 yrs ago. I was reading books by Kenneth Hagin and Charles Capps that basically taught the same things. Praise God I did start reading Warren Smith's books as well as Constance Cumby which did show me the errors in my theology. I did not know anything about how to study the Bible with correct hermeneutics until the last year. Thank God for His mercy and grace in keeping me.
Preach my dear friend and sister. It comes with a cost. You know that. Know you will be prayed for. Endure. It's all about Him. Everything. XXOO -Linda Dodd, Cedaredge, CO
It was brought to my attention as a decades-long, former Independent Baptist that many of my entrenched beliefs were actually denominational tradition. At first I couldn’t puzzle out what this even meant since I was so deeply entrenched. When I realized indeed that hunks of my “theology” were tradition, not biblical, I abandoned them.
Sola Scriptura.
This is why it is so important to be attending a church that teaches the Bible and the whole gospel. Many churches have watered down the gospel and are including political and social propagsnda in thier sermons. Deceiving and robbing people of the truth, the gospel and understanding the "grace" of God. 😢
I went to Osteen's church for a couple of years. Loved his church. I left to live in Turkey for 10 years (wasn't an active Christian) and shortly after returning I was hit by the Holy Spirit hard. My prayer life and Bible reading tripled from when I was a younger Christian. It was like instant maturity. Haha. Not sure what happened, but God brought me back and in much better condition.
Oh wow, the open monologue was me! 😢 I’m so grateful Jesus didn’t give up on me! Thankfully, I heard HIS voice through the noise and I left all that behind.
We gotta be biblical Christians
Which bible? Their are hundreds of different versions of the bible. There are MANY people in the church who get all over your case if you are not reading the King Jim version.
@@saxmanjpr5092 king James is good but a word for word translation is what you really want like the ESV is good I used to be a KJV only girl but have recently started reading the ESV and it's very well translated and much easier to understand if you don't understand old English but the Holy Spirit really needs to lead you when you read. The niv n NLT are thought for thought translations so they aren't exactly great. The message n passion translation are completely awful and are not biblical. Don't worry about church people they often celebrate Halloween and participate in witchcraft. Knowing God is most important 🤗
@@jenshively5447, YES , Although I read the KJV. I also read the Amplified BIBLE & ESV. Anglicized BIBLE. * The Amplified is VERY good !!
@@johnpearce3714 I like the ESV but prefer kjv
@@jenshively5447 , YES , thanks for your reply. However ,I do read KJV. In conjunction with the Amplified BIBLE . I find the Amp. Is a VERY excellent use for studying the deep literal meanings of the writer's of GOD'S word. ----- * Translated from the original Languages. * Parentheses , Brackets etc. etc . ** If anyone hasn't seen the Amplified BIBLE . Make sure that you get with the above !!
Well done. Ty. It’s all about elevation of self, rebellion against submitting to God, being “equal” to God and pride. Everything that the Bible clearing warns about.
Hey! Great Video! When someone dies unexpectedly, It bothers me when someone says "Well, God is in Control" (not a Bible Verse)
as if God goes around giving people cancer. Every problem on planet Earth is a direct or indirect result of sin. Jesus is the only answer we have as Christians...and He is more than enough!
I get the gist of what you're saying, but how is an illness a "direct or indirect result of sin"?
@@kimrobinson6285 sin and death/disease entered the world through the fall of the first Adam, death and sin were conquered by the second Adam, (Christ). This is of course an oversimplification.
New thought in churches drove me from God. I think part of me knew it was wrong, but then I fell into ‘spirituality’ for 2/3 of my life. The Holy Spirit came to me in my darkest hours and I have returned to God and was baptized. My new church is scripture based and feels like home. I’m imperfect but redeemed and am trying to retrain my brain and heart and return to my Christian roots while honoring God even in my struggles.
Dawn I was raised in Christian holy ghost home. I fall but I needed jesus God
Robert Schuler was one of the original new thoughters. My mom used to turn on the Crystal Cathedral on a Sunday morning as we were getting ready for church.
I have a whole chapter in my book about him.
@@MelissaDougherty I'll check it out.
Would that be because of the freemasonry in that church and therefore it was their (hidden) objective to lead people down the wrong path?
I always discerned something was off with Robert Schuler but I could not put my finger on it. Mind you I was just a child when watching him but even then I knew what he was teaching was wrong
My parents did the same! He never talked about sin and he always had this weird joker smile stretched across his face.
Yes, absolutely right! When returning to the faith after 30 years in "the wilderness", the first thing I did was to read the entire Bible (for the first time), from beginning to end over a period of 18 months. Its the best filter against that sort of pollution.
This was so instructive yet delivered in a frank and (yes) humorous way. I love your honesty and integrity.
It sounds like those a Mormon believes. One of their Articles of Faith is “Man is what God once was. God is what man may become”. I grew up LDS, and this is the number one reason I started to question EVERYTHING they were teaching. Now I continually pray for my family that are still in that church.
So please explain how you could go from a first hand account explanation of the godhead to a creed explanation of the god head clearly a man created understanding?
@@shadowknightgladstay4856no creeds ??
you are spot on. Dave Hunt warned about this a ton!
Oh how right you are! As you spoke I remembered when “the Secret” was popular, I was skeptical but I wrote in my notebook how scripture said similar concepts! During a really desperate time in my life, the answer was “Kenneth Copeland’s teachings”! I thank God I was saved while under a scripture teaching and preaching pastor, who taught seeking the Holy Spirits wisdom and studying the whole Bible! I grinch over these episodes, with lessons learned I am fearfully aware how easy it is to fall for the deceivers tricks! He always says : “it looks good, you can be like God “knowing good from evil”, and you can have it all! You have pointed out even more pitfalls I didn’t take seriously enough, thank you!
Knowing good from evil is from the tree of the knowledge of good & evil. We are to be living and learning in the tree of life- Holy Spirit. Our knowledge is a tiny micron compared to God’s. In short, our knowledge should only come from reading and discerning, through the Holy Spirit.
Back in the 1990's one of the members of the church worked in a "Family Christian Bookstore" and declared that the majority of the books in there were not Biblically accurate. I was astonished at that time, but as I have grown and learned, I see the slippery slope of "Christian" writing that is focused more on me and how I am to live, rather than on Jesus and how he lives in me. One of the last straws at that church for me was when the leadership engaged in Enneagram. Definitely New Thought.
Thanks Mellisa for the information on new age and new thought. After the information you gave on new age vs new thought, I understand it better. I have a family member who was expressing new thought. At that time, I did not recognize it.
Melissa - New thought is not new at all. It's just Gnosticism. Colossians addresses this. Help your readers understand Gnosticism and compare it with the true Gospel. When you show the flaws, lift up the truth next to it so your listeners can see the differences. Thank you for sharing this. Keep up the good work.
I’d never heard of “New Thought” until you started talking about it!
This month commemorates about 15 years with the Lord for me.
I sat alone for about a year with a Bible, no church, no people to listen to, and read cover to cover.
I told myself, "if this is true, it will destroy my worldview and my presumptions, and I must face it and not flinch mo matter how unpleasant."
And the Lord certainly wrecked me with the truth and I love Him for it.
Over the years of being with the Lord and getting to know Him, through Scripture and His Spirit and life;
I have learned that many people who are revered or looked up to, who give speeches and grandiose advice and write books on these vague spiritualisms......
Know absolutely nothing, especially not of the Lord, and make up the most delusional nonsense. But more amazing yet, has been to see the masses of people who smile and nod and embrace their delusion.
It is no wonder that Israel ran after the Baalim.
this is such an important subject!! especially in regards to your previous videos about MLM's where they are literally teaching new thought 101 to their "teams". after 10 years, i'm so glad we escaped those false teachings - we were taught everything you said & more. they caused a *major* faith crisis for us. it's so freeing to pray for God's will instead of demanding things 🥴 thank God for His mercy.
Knowing scripture intimately is definitely so very important and missing in many. Good advice
Yes yes yes. I have been thinking on your ophra video. It’s so strange that like you, I became a Christian then got led from really getting to know my saviour by wrong doctrine--which I now know was no ones fault but mine because I never read His book. I went to church and listened to tidbits of the bible but even the churches ,and I attended a few in my search for something I just felt wasn’t right, never preached the whole Christ....just the fuzzy soft teddy bear Christ. But something deep in me( the Holy Spirit... and can I just say... Thankyou Lord for your spirit...) kept poking me that so much of all I heard around me that always sounded so uplifting andChristian just kept souring my insides. Then God just pushed me to the wall and I felt I just had to read the bible and I did... again and again. And wow! Then I started to have the scales fall away. But You gave me words I could use to describe the spiritual darkness that covers over most church’s and when I open Pinterest and read some cute uplifting but spiritually wrong sayings I smile and say “thankyou my dear”
A friend sent me a link to your channel. Now I'm a subscriber!
Amen! Loved this. I've been shaken awake by God too recently when he showed me lies I embraced as truth. I had no idea. God is good!
Great discussion. What I came to realize as someone who was exposed to New Age and New Thought is that Christ did not come to deliver social justice. He came for the salvation of the existence of mankind. Jesus was not political and certainly did not espouse finding answers through our material life here on earth.
He came to resurrect the dead souls
We don’t need revival in the Church
We need RESURRECTION!
Just needed to say that your lighting, color coordination and video color grading is amazing.
I still have much to learn but after completing the “Bible in the Year” podcast I definitely noticed my discernment sharpened. Sometimes it was blazingly obvious, and other times it was a subtle “this doesn’t sound right.” The first time around I listened to the podcast during my morning commute. I plan to go through it again but with Bible and highlighter in hand.
Thank you for sharing. Hoping you are doing well. Praying you will have a wonderful week.
Right, we’re all growing. So we need to be more gracious to one another and seek how we can build one another up in love.
“He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.”
Acts 18:26
Very good teaching! I have been in sales all my adult life and always been hesitant about “calling into existence” what I am “seeking”…seemed like it just was not biblical & this teaching has helped me understand! Thank you!
This video message is so important. We have to first consider, "I may be deceived." And we really should be posing that possibility about _everything_ we believe, except the existence of Jesus Christ Himself. We should be praying to God, "Remove from me every false thing I believe about You."
Thank you for tackling this, this stuff is everywhere, especially in so many Insta influencers.
You are so correct about the importance of searching scripture and discerning truth of God from the lies of the devil. The devil knows God's word too but in a twisted up fashion, just like in the Garden of Eden.
Excellent! Thank you for boldly speaking out the truth. It's so deeply needed today!
Nailed it, Melissa! Ignorance of scripture leads us to invent the God that we desire---
not the God who is. Even the great characters/writers of scripture asked, "Why, Lord?",
so it is not surprising that we do the same. However, they did not have the extensive written
record that we have, which thoroughly describes our God---what He will/will not do, what
He will/will not allow, what He said/did not say.
The declaration prayers have always given me pause. Thank you for addressing that topic and the I AMs language. ❤
The glasses. I literally spit out my mouthful of cottage cheese! 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you miss for your service to our lord..if I may, I surrendered to our lord in 2018 beginning him to help me...I didn't want to kill myself and I didn't know how to live..complete mess me and my life was..anyway, lord heard me..since, I surrender daily, I got baptised (again) in an orthodox coptic Egyptian church, where I live in England..I heard our lord telling us to: deny ourselves, carry our cross,and then,follow him...am still stuck on: deny myself...very tough one..I used to listen to all those attractive so called Christians, I don't anymore...I try to stay simple, live simple, spend time with our lord daily...asking him to teach me daily...God forgive those who are worshipping themselves now a days, rather than keep focused on our lord..he is the source of all goodness..he is faithful our lord and very compassionate and loving and forgiving...am glad he never gave up on me, when I did...all glory to our lord and saviour, lord jesus..amen