Throughout the ages a battle has raged between two sources of power: God’s and Satan’s. However, they are not in any way equal; the Eternal God created Satan and granted him limited power for a season. Not only has that battle not ceased, in our time, it has grown far more subtle and widespread. Thus it is vital to discern true from false, genuine from counterfeit.

Why should we do this?

Read the whole post ...

Instead of believing that anything spiritually powerful is good, we instead must ask: What is the source of this power? Does it really connect its practitioners with a true and trustworthy spiritual realm? With the true and living God whose only Son Jesus Christ came in the flesh and died on the Cross for our sins? Does it deliver what it promises? Or do we actually get something else? Something false and deceitful? Jesus’ first reply when asked about the signs of His return was to watch out that we are not deceived. And 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 warns us to “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil.”

In this day and age, it is absolutely crucial to “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good” lest we be lead down the wrong road. Native spirituality is oral teaching and is not written like the Bible is. One of the tendencies that I have come across concerning oral teaching is that it never ends with the same words or sentence it started with. Therefore, how can an oral teaching from 200 years ago be the same today? Yet, they choose not to believe the Bible because it is written? God protects His very own; and will put a check on our spirits when we are being fed something false and deceitful. Let each one of us be sure of our beliefs, we are spiritually responsible for our own selves. I encourage all to do this for your own sakes before it is too late. 
 

Read the whole post ...

This ungodly mixture of occultism and works as a means to obtain spiritual power has existed for a long time among the Native peoples. Back in the 1800s and the early 1900s, the Canadian government subjected them to residential schools to “Christianize” these “pagan people” by forcing Catholicism down their throats. They never ‘Christianized” the Native people, but left them with a bitter taste in their mouths. As a result, they are generally quite angry towards religion, which is understandable. This is not the love, forgiveness, or new life that the real Lord Jesus Christ gives to people. When I read these words from Revelation 18:4-5, I knew they were speaking to me about renouncing all aspects of this false gospel: “And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not any of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Most recently, First Nations people in Canada have won a lawsuit against the Federal Government and the Roman Catholic, United and Presbyterian Churches for abuses suffered while under their care. The unspeakable atrocities committed against First Nations people have left them vulnerable to Native Spirituality – there are just no words to express the monumental damage inflicted on them, be it spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical. The scars that they bore throughout these past decades were hidden; they suffered in silence – until that silence erupted in a battle for justice in the Supreme Court of Canada. Could you imagine how God feels? Could you even begin to imagine His pain and heartache? Could you even imagine how that same pain, torture and abuse would drive these poor people to abuse substances to escape or numb the pain? This is what we see in the seediest part of any city known as skid row. There you see the remnants of the abuses suffered at the hands of government officials and terrorists under the guise of Christianity.
 

Read the whole post ...

There was always some satanic presence in our home that created havoc during the day and crippled me with fear at night. The objects Grandpa and Dad kept had demonic spirits connected to them, like the medicine bundle, the dream catchers, the "protection," and other such items.

Grandpa John used to make 'protection' for all of his descendants, which he gave us when we turned eighteen. This was merely a fetish sewn inside a leather pouch with either a leather throng to wear around the neck or waist or a safety pin to pin onto clothing. He also used to make voodoo dolls, asking me to cut pictures of people out of magazines. I have a sneaking suspicion that he used their pictures for the faces of the voodoo dolls because he used to laugh about it when I asked him why he wanted the pictures.

Read the whole post ...

When I first became a Christian, I was told that I would come to my senses and return to our teachings. Sometimes Native people may believe that they detect something is wrong when another person becomes a born again Christian. Instead of issuing harsh judgment on the ‘wrong doer’, so to speak, they might invite that person to a ceremony to heal her spiritual self or to impart teaching that supposedly will enable that person to recognize the error of her ways, come to her senses and return to the teachings of old.

Read the whole post ...