I’ve been getting a lot of response from women on my personal email, as well as the comments you see on this site, concerning the blog I posted last week about Oprah Winfrey and the new religion she is promoting. I am blessed that so many are seeing the danger, repenting of places of involvement or blindness (it’s so easy to let our minds go into passive gear when the TV is on!), and telling their friends about the danger of even the most casual involvement with occult things. Don’t be deceived, Oprah’s new religion is occultic indeed! Unfortunately, immature or careless Christians who are not rooted and grounded in the love of God and in His Word as revealed through the scriptures can be deceived by the seemingly love-filled tone they hear and see through Oprah. Her generosity and sympathy for the down-trodden makes us easily trust her in all areas, including the spiritual. That kind of trust is dangerous because, in this case, it appears that Oprah herself has been deceived by Eckhart Tolle and Marianne Williams and is speaking what she believes to be true. Deception is not an excuse that God excepts for sin, of course. Remember Eve in the Garden of Eden? Satan deceived her, but God did not excuse her! God holds us accountable to know what He has said.
We need to recognize that generosity is not an atonement for sin. Only the blood of Jesus cleanses us of sin. All the acts of kindness, the most generous of giving does not make us clean before God. I am so grateful that I don’t have to earn forgiveness from God! Jesus paid the price for my sin and I stand before Him totally clean just because I have received (and the Father in Heaven has accepted!) the blood of Jesus as payment in full for my sin. All I have to do to be accepted by God is to receive Jesus as my ONLY SAVIOR! Salvation does not come from myself, not from what I do or from what I think. Savation comes from God alone through Jesus Christ. Let’s pray that Oprah will be converted to the Only True and Living God and all who listen to her will hear and believe this Truth as well!
A good prayer point would be to ask Jesus to fulfill in Oprah’s life the parable of the lost sheep. Jesus says in Matthew 18: 12-14 that the Good Shepherd will go after the one who strays away and rescue it. Oprah once claimed to be a Christian, so it would appear that she qualifies as a “sheep straying from the fold.” Wouldn’t it be great to see her renounce this false religion and return to the Living God? It staggers me to think of the consequences that will befall her if she does not repent, the same consequences that await her mentors! Jesus says it would be better to have a millstone tied around her neck and to fall into the deepest sea than to cause even one of His little ones to stumble. And we have not even talked about the consequence of eternal damnation in hell! So let’s call out to God for her return to the household of God and to her True Elder Brother and Savior Jesus Christ.
In the meantime let’s join forces in praying for those who watch her show, that they not fall prey to the schemes of the enemy! Let’s plead the blood of Jesus to protect the ears of His children and purify their hearts from the bad seeds that have been planted in their hearts. Let’s pray for Ellie and her cell group that the Holy Spirit will open the ears of this lady to hear the truth and turn away from the lies of the enemy. Let’s also pray for those Christians who are still watching Oprah’s TV show, that they WAKE UP and stop participating in evil!
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