CHARLO, New Brunswick, September 5, 2023 – Do not talk to dead people: God forbids it in the Old Testament. If you have something to say to a loved one who’s passed on, take it to God and Jesus. When you’re at the grave of a loved one, tell God and Jesus whatever it is you want to tell your loved one. But do not talk directly to the deceased. That’s how you open doors to malevolent spirits, no matter how well-intentioned you are or how protected you think you are by God’s Holy Spirit.

Graveyards have earned a reputation over the centuries for being places haunted by evil entities. This is a well-deserved reputation, as evil entities are in fact being unwittingly summoned when people go to graveyards to talk to their deceased loved ones. There are no haunted places, only haunted people. Do not become a target of evil spirits by summoning them when you talk to dead people. Direct your communications only to God and Jesus.

Demons are always hanging around, waiting for you to slip up. If you try to communicate with someone who’s passed on, it becomes a major opportunity for the demons to pretend they’re the person you’re trying to reach. DO NOT TALK TO DEAD PEOPLE, including “saints”. Do not pray to “saints” and do not pray to angels (even the holy ones). Your prayers should only be directed to God and Jesus. DO NOT TALK TO DEMONS OR OTHER FALLEN SPIRITS, other than, during an exorcism, to ask their name and then tell them to leave. The only communications you should be making in prayer are to God and Jesus, no-one else.

Please remember that.

TALKING TO COUNSELLORS

As born-again believers, we know that God and Jesus are with us 24/7, thanks to the intervention of God’s Holy Spirit. No-one on Earth is better at listening or giving advice and guidance than God and Jesus. If you’re a born-again believer, there is no reason whatsoever for you to go to a guidance counsellor or a marriage counsellor or a financial counsellor or any other kind of counsellor. None. No reason. It’s an insult to God and Jesus when you by-pass them and go to a worldly counsellor.

How can a person help you more than God and Jesus can help you? Whatever problem you have, whatever advice you need, there’s no-one better to ask than God and Jesus. No-one can give you a sense of relief and peace like God and Jesus can. And best of all, their advice and counselling are FREE. They never charge a cent. And you never have to make an appointment – they’re available whenever you need them.

Let unbelievers go to worldly counsellors (God made worldly counsellors for the sake of unbelievers), but born-again believers have no cause to use their services. Any problem you have, take it to God and Jesus. Whatever your issue, take it to God and Jesus. They’re always waiting and willing and happy to hear from you.

TALKING TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY

It’s tempting for us to unburden ourselves to family and friends, including our Christian family. But we need to be very, very careful about who we choose to unburden to and very, very selective about what we choose to reveal. Scripture tells us that even our closest friends and family members, including spouses, could end up being our worst enemies, and not necessarily from anything they do intentionally. What they mean for our good may be contrary to what God wants for us. Think of Jesus’ mother coming to take him home when he was healing people in Capernaum. Mary thought she was doing the right thing – the motherly thing – by protecting Jesus, but she was in fact doing the opposite by trying to stop Jesus’ ministry.

We can never fully trust anyone in a mortal body, even those who claim to be born-again, as their inspiration may not always come from God and their intentions, despite their smooth words, may not always be noble. Scripture tells us that Jesus never unburdened himself to any of his disciples. If he had a problem, he took it to God. If he had a concern, he took it to God. If he had a suspicion, he took it to God. He played his spiritual cards very close to his chest when it came to his disciples and everyone else except for his Heavenly Father. Revelations from God Jesus only revealed when God gave him the go-ahead to do so. 

As born-again believers, we’re surrounded by enemies 24/7 – spiritual ones as well as flesh-covered ones. Even those who claim to have our best interests at heart and to be on our side should be held at arm’s length and never fully confided in, never fully trusted. God we can trust, Jesus we can trust, but everyone else, no. Not being perfected, everyone else is fully capable of betrayal, everyone else is still able to choose against God, everyone else is still able to fall and take us down with them.

I want this thought to disturb you. I want the thought that you can only trust God and Jesus to so deeply disturb you that it takes root in your heart and you mull it over until it becomes part of you, until it becomes your default position. I want you to hold this disturbing thought up against scripture to see if you find support for it there. ****SPOILER ALERT**** You will find support. All throughout scripture, you’ll find warnings not to trust people. Some of the warnings will be overt and some will be revealed in sordid tales with sordid outcomes detailing the fatal consequences of unwisely trusting people. You must learn not to trust people. As a born-again believer, not trusting people must be your default.

Jesus sacrificed himself so that we could have a close relationship with him and with God through God’s Holy Spirit. There’s no-one else we truly need to lean on during the rest of our time on Earth, and no-one else we should trust.