PROSPERITY GOSPEL THEOLOGY: NEW AGEISM IN THE CHURCH.BEWARE THAT THE CHRISTIANITY YOU'RE BEING TAUGHT ISN'T WITCHCRAFT.
Law Of Attraction; A Replacement Of Spiritual Warfare/ Deliverance in churches.

Ever since I discovered that the church I was in wasn't sound in scriptural doctrine, I left. Many churches are not sound in scripture. Many pastors have bent to make church be what people want rather than what Christ wants it to be. The problem is, many Christians do not know what they're being taught is new ageism. I listen to people who were once new agers and are now Christians, of course they have a lot of insight about new ageism and how it works. Sadly, the new washed down 'hip and cool' version of Christianity has many aspects of new ageism. It has made Christianity to become so powerless. We join in the world and their beliefs till we find it difficult to distinguish between sound biblical doctrine and the devils doctrines.

(Positive) Affirmations 

Visualisations 

Positive thinking

These make up the LAW OF ATTRACTION. This, I realised, were used heavily in the church I was in and it was detrimental to my faith as a Christian and my growth in spiritual matters. We were being taught to practice witchcraft. Many churches use this tool in their teachings.

The law of attraction is the basic principle in witchcraft that a witch and warlock learns. That is what one will use as the core tool in conjuring up spells.

As I continue to get more revelations into the prosperity gospel theology, I see that it has replaced spiritual warfare. We live in a time where Christians do not know spiritual warfare, what it entails and how to stay in it even as the devil wages war against you.

One of the pastors in that previous church I was in would insist that people's problems were not caused by demonic activity suppressing and oppressing them. That they needed to just ignore spiritual matters and move on and stop bothering him about their 'demon' problems. Now, I came to find out people in that church were heavy under demonic attacks in their lives and there was no deliverance in the church to enable them to have victory. One friend of mine suffered so many miscarriages, she was at her wits end. Her marriage was on its knees and she had once left her martial home because of the stress. More and more stories of other women suffering miscarriages came up. Marriages were being afflicted so badly and the spirit of fornication was rampant in that church. Lord have mercy! Those were the signs of marine spirits having a time of their life in that place.

The law of attraction (let's abbreviate it to LOA) is a major component in the Prosperity Gospel Theology. 

In New Age, it is defined as a principle that states that you can have anything you desire, so long as you want it bad enough. This theory, touted as a Law by practitioners and believers, suggests that humans are divine; in fact, we’re creators. Everything that ever was and ever will be was created by a cosmic desire to make it so, thus we have the power to manifest our own reality in the here and now. 

The Law of Attraction, as it is now known, is not really the breakthrough that it claims to be. Magicians and Occult practitioners have been engaging in this philosophy for ages. In an effort to make it sound cutting edge, proponents of the Law of Attraction couch it in scientific (and religious) terms. 

Through this principle, you can literally focus your thoughts to a specific outcome, and the “universe”, or the energy around you, simply has no choice but to comply with the specific energy output of your positive thoughts. If your positive thoughts are focused on a certain specific outcome, say you want a new shiny red bicycle, the energy around you will work to put events in place that will ultimately result in you receiving said bicycle. Kinda sounds like magic, doesn’t it? (It's because it is!) 

http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/the-law-of-attraction/

You can read this Wikipedia article on Prosperity Theology to understand more on this phenomenon in today's churches. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology

Let's look at some of the descriptions of Prosperity Theology in the article:

"Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, or the gospel of success) is a religious belief among some Christians, who hold that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive speech, and donations to religious causes will increase one's material wealth."

"The doctrine emphasizes the importance of donations of money, visualization, and positive confession."

(Now you know why pastor's gift, seed and tithing are insisted upon in churches and if you don't give money, they say something horribly bad will happen to you.)

The article continues:

"This leads to a belief in positive confession, the doctrine that believers may claim whatever they desire from God, simply by speaking it. Prosperity theology teaches that the Bible has promised prosperity for believers, so positive confession means that believers are speaking in faith what God has already spoken about them. Positive confession is practiced to bring about what is already believed in; faith itself is a confession, and speaking it brings it into reality." 

Above, Joel Osteen and Oprah teaching people to speak positively to change their situations. If Joel is a minister of God, he should be teaching spiritual warfare. (And again, I don't know when a minister of God started being in agreement with a woman who claimed Jesus is not the only way to heaven, that there are many ways to heaven.)

LOA sounds true at face value especially when you don't call it Law Of Attraction but instead call it "thinking positively".

LOA teaches us to speak to cosmic powers, that you're not supposed to speak anything negative because you're drawing negative energy to yourself and you will not attract the good things that you want to manifest in your life.

You're speaking to the power of I Am (another concept I will discuss in another article), and as new agers put it your speaking to the energy of the universe to attract and draw good things into your life. 

Now, someone claimed I was anti the prosperity of Christians. I am not. Even God loves the prosperity of his servants. All I need is for people to know the truth about the counterfeit gospel. First and foremost, what was the mandate of Jesus when He was on earth? His major mandate was deliverance. He came to deliver us from the kingdom of darkness and from the works of the enemy. His death on the cross was the major deliverance for us. His work on the cross gave us even more power against the kingdom of hell in doing deliverance. The apostles and many other servants of Christ began working in the power of the Holy Ghost: healing, CASTING OUT DEMONS, speaking in tongues, working miracles. Surely, it was not a matter of believing in yourself and positively confessing that "I am slender and not fat"  as Joel Osteen preaches. It's about casting out a spirit of gluttony and speaking scripture to the demons that your body is whole by the stripes of Jesus you're healed.

Let me tell you my dear brothers and sisters, you can positive think and confess and affirm positively that your marriage will soon be okay, think positively that you will be healed, affirm that your children will not abuse drugs; but my dear friends, if you do not do spiritual warfare, your words are useless. If you don't get on your knees and start incinerating the devil and his demons, your marriage situation will drag on longer than it should.

Spiritual warfare includes using powerful components like using straight up bible verses in casting the devil out. Using the word of God as your sword. Referring to scripture and speaking it to demons to come out, pack their filthy load and go. All in who's name? In Jesus name! Apply bible verses on yourself and your situations.

Spiritual warfare also includes REPENTANCE and HOLINESS. That is also an aspect that LOA overlooks. That instead of thinking "bad" things like your sins, please just think about rosy things like how blissful you want your life to be and draw that positive energy to yourself. That instead of thinking "difficult" things of trying to live in righteousness, you're not supposed to overwork yourself about such matters because Jesus is cuddly and doesn't want you to stress yourself in working out your salvation. Well then, get ready to be spewed out! Revelation 3:16.

Churches avoid teaching on holiness, repentance, righteousness and sanctification because if they do, they'll literally be left with only 3 attendees. Being a minister of God is a tough call and it requires one to call out sin as it is. It requires for one to be a watchman of righteousness and holiness. But because this is tough, it's thrown out so as not to aggravate people and make them uncomfortable in this age of "judge ye not" easily offended people.

Spiritual warfare also calls for a genuine intimate relationship with God.

There are many aspects to spiritual warfare that I will discuss as I go along in talking about deliverance in articles that I will write. In more articles to come, we shall continue discussing the aspects of prosperity theology gospel and new ageism in the church.