Am I praying or practicing magic?, TRR Episode and Posture 18

Am I praying or practicing magic?, TRR, Episode and Posture 18: 

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Welcome to The Returning Raven: Clarity Points for Truth, where we discern how pagan worship, specifically yoga in all its forms and philosophies, infects and impacts the church, the family and you. It’s time to get out of the grey, and into the Light...to worship in truth!  Today we are moving forward in my book, Unearthing Yoga’s Ancient Roots: Exposing Sorcery and Its Transcultural Reach and will be going over Posture or Chapter 18 titled “Preying Witches” preying being p r e y ing, referencing the former chapter on yogi predatory witches. 

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I’m your host Dr. Alana Arguello. Today we  will also look at the historical meaning, context and application of …yoga! Expounding on Chapter 18 in my book, Unearthing Yoga’s Ancient Roots: Exposing Sorcery and Its Transcultural Reach, available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQVJ4QR4

Dr. Arguello takes a literal, historical-grammatical view of the Word of God.

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Dr, Arguello's Book: Unearthing Yoga’s Ancient Roots: Exposing Sorcery and Its Transcultural Reach (Amazon's weblink below):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQVJ4QR4

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For Book and Show Information videos, as well as 10 Myths: Introducing the Yoga You Don’t Know, please visit Dr. Arguello’s website and media:

https://www.thereturningraven.com

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Host: Dr. Alana Arguello (Apologist, Author)
TRR Managing Media Editor: JA

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Transcript

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Welcome to The Returning Raven, Clarity Points for Truth, where we look closer at the yoga you don't know. The one with hidden forms, worldview, sorcery, and philosophy that clouds and deceptively influences culture, church, family, and you. I'm Dr. Alana Arguello. It's time to leave the fog, get out of the gray, and into the light. Join me today at The Clarity Point. Welcome to The Returning Raven, Clarity Points for Truth. I'm your host, Dr. Alana Arguello. Today we are moving forward in my book, Unearthing Yoga's Ancient Roots, Exposing Sorcery and Its Transcultural Reach. And we will be going over posture or chapter 18 titled Praying Witches. Praying being P-R-E-Y-I-N-G, referencing the former chapter on Yogi Predatory Witches. In the last episode and in other episodes, I've mentioned that magic is you doing something within the mindset that something will produce a supernatural result from the spiritual to your natural world. Let's clarify the difference between praying, P-R-A-Y-N-G, and magic. And let's look if going to church is equivalent to doing magic. Don't we pray or go to church to experience something spiritual in the natural realm? Well, let's break this down. Sometimes a practice of magic starts with the idea, yoga, or you are offered the practice packaged in a way that hides the idea. Regardless, after you practice enough, which this is witchcraft, it imprints the idea well enough that your understanding of God begins to change. In other words, if you don't accept the idea on the front end, the idea of yoga being your God, you'll inevitably accept it on the back end. This is because the idea is embedded in the practice. And all pagan worship, including yoga practice, has the yoga idea embedded in it, and it is in rebellion to and in contradiction of the biblical worldview of the nature of God. Allow me to illustrate my point here. In truth, God is omnipresent, never leaving you nor forsaking you, as nothing can snatch you from his hand. Because of who the God of the Bible is, calling him forth to be present, like a genie, or as if he were like some pagan distant god to be summoned contradicts his divine nature. If a practice is used as a means or a tool to make God answer or make him more likely to answer, where you can expect the answer you desire, then God is being treated in an erroneous way. It also falsely makes one think they have the right to summon him, or that by doing some ritual, then he'll be good and answer you. We can boldly go to him, yes, to his throne, as his children. But we do not summon him through a song or a prayer ritual. Such practices make him our servant and not the other way around. Satan has to be summoned, as he is not omnipresent. He is not like God, the eternal I am. Going to God's throne is yielding one's heart, not traveling through space and time. Again, God never leaves nor forsakes us. We can boldly pray to the Father with all our concerns because we are forgiven and clothed by the righteousness of Jesus. We may tell our spouse, I'm going to go pray, but we are not physically traveling and going to God, as God is already with us. If a person uses mind, speech, body, or a tool, whether beads, an object to stare at, a room, chalk to draw a circle around you, etc., to perform an act or ritual, to get God to do your bidding, speak to you, give you something, or answer prayer, even for a seemingly good thing like save our nation, then this is the practice of magic. Circle drawing is a common practice within witchcraft, but is also found in some yoga practices. Practitioners get in circles representative of chakra to worship Shakti, the female power of yoga, meaning energy or lightning. In the ancient world, they would get into circles and unmarried individuals would have sex in the middle of the circles, either literally or symbolically. If we think we can shave off the immorality of the ancient world and adapt the magic circle practices of witchcraft and yoga to fit our Christian look, while claiming we only use those tools or methods to help, are we really being set apart? Are we really heeding God's biblical warnings that pagan worship will ensnare you, will take you away from him, even if you use them to worship him? And are we truly trusting God's sovereignty and goodness if we think we need to do something to have him hear us better or to have him be good to us? Are we trusting that he is the I am, the self-existent one, all powerful, that doesn't need us and can't change or be manipulated by human desire or effort? Or are we relying on something other than God? We don't need tools the way the pagans do for their finite demon gods. Again, God told us not to use their worship customs to worship him. By the way, no matter how many are joined together, including when the special ones or the who's who of Christianity join hands, American Christians cannot pray for the immorality in this nation by doing a pagan practice that God forbids, like praying inside drawn or made circles. The foolish irony, too, that paganism is what causes immorality, as findings in cultural anthropology echo the truth of Romans 1. Praying in repentance that God changes you, that God helps you to become more like Him in grace, kindness, and love, to respond to others, or to help you understand His word rightly, or for your marriage to heal, or letting out frustrations and worries at His feet, or asking God to provide for you so you can manage in this world. This means we pray for the Father's will and wait on him, trusting in his sovereignty and goodness, as he is the one in control and always good. You don't need a method, ritual, particular way, a special place or room, or extraordinary things needed. It's just you and him or with other believers in fellowship. Our prayers are supposed to be in humility, asking in his will for his purposes and trusting him, take all things to him, but trust him. If you're not yet to that point in your Christian walk, ask God to align your heart with his will and ways. Also, if we think we're going to church every Sunday saves us, or we'll have God answer our prayers, then this is works-based salvation and treating God like a candy machine. But if we think going to church or a deliverance school, trying a new prayer fad or ritual, or even trying a new exercise or formula will make us closer to Him and gain powers or answers, then this is magic. And if you do it repeatedly, then it is witchcraft. And if you utilize special teachers to learn how to do it better, then this is sorcery. Thank you for joining me today on The Returning Raven. I'm your host, Dr. Alana Arguello. Church, choose this day whom you will serve and get the pagan worship out. Get out of the circles, get out of all the pagan worship and worship freely in Christ, in spirit, and in truth. I'll see you at the next Clarity Point. Thank you for joining me today on The Returning Raven. I'm Dr. Alana Arguello. For a closer look again at truth, I'll see you at the next Clarity Point.