What is Yoga? I stumbled across the below definition, after reading it you will see why no Christian should practise Yoga. It is dabbling in the occult under the pretence of healthy living – it is a deception.
“Many do not understand the concept of yoga. Some think it is a religion. Some think it is physical exercise for health and some think it is a psychological system. All this is based on a misunderstanding f yoga. Yoga is simply a relationship. The word yoga comes from the biblical word, yoke which in turn originated from the root word in Sanskrit jugit. Both mean joining together or to unite. Yoga is the union of an individual consciousness with infinite consciousness. A yogi is a person who leans completely on the Supreme Consciousness, God, until they have merged their individual self with the Infinite Self. This is all….”
Basically, Yoga is about opening up your spirit through your body so that you can be ‘yoked’ to a higher power – spirit. These spirits, called ‘god’ are not the true and living God, but one of the ‘many spirits’ that have gone out into the world, seeking a house (man/woman) to dwell in.
Christian beware!
Posted by Pat Gresham on March 30, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Why does everyone think that you will be posessed by demonic spirits if you do yoga? As a teacher of Christian Yoga at church, our class has found a closer relationship with Jesus by using the many physical benefits that yoga offers. You do not have to be a Hindu to honor the body that God has given us. Your faith must be weak to think that practicing yoga would influence you to any eastern mysticism.
Posted by M.C. on October 28, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Cause they stupid that’s why! They S-T-U-P-I-D!
Posted by jonyeong on November 4, 2009 at 7:56 pm
In the first place, there is no such thing as Christian Yoga. It is not found in the Bible anywhere at all. Secondly, sad to say the world has gone into the church whereas the Church should be reaching out to the world. Worldly, carnal and ungodly things such as Yoga has gone into the Church.
ALWAYS SEE THE ORIGIN AND SOURCE OF THINGS!! Especially pertaining to the Spirit Realm. There are 2 sides – the Holy Spirit or the evil spirits. the spirit of Yoga is of hinduism and is NOT OF GOD! You are so deceived. God wants u to honor Him with Your Heart, Soul and Mind NOT YOGA! Worst still Yoga is a pagan practice. Why are Yoga teacher bringing a pagan practice into the church. God made it clear in the Bible certain practices are an ABOMINATION TO GOD! READ THE BOOK OF MALACHI AND YOU WILL KNOW GOD’s Standards.
More importantly, if u have felt the love of God why on earth do u need Yoga to bring a closer relationship with Jesus? Jesus wants ur COMMUNICATION, YOUR LIFE, YOUR SOUL and everything! Not YOGA! Yoga’s root is hinduism. How can there be peace and corelation between God and Satan? What is of God is of God, What is of the world is of the world, what is of satan is satan’s!
I must say Pat Gesham that ur church has fallen into a major deception in believeing that Yoga is okey and that you are even having Classes! The Holy Spirit is very grieved! God wants us to do things His Ways and according to HIS WORD!! Yoga is definitely not what Jesus is looking for. Yoga is of the carnal mind and hindu religion and must NEVER EVER BE IN THE CHURCH!
BEAR IN MIND! We can never please God with our carnal mind and actions especially Yoga! We must please God in the spirit, with our heart and with WHAT WE DO? Do u think Yoga is pleasing in the sight of God when it is of the devil?
As for u MC, DONT CALL ANYONE STUPID. What U say will surely bounce back to u
God Bless!
Posted by cs on April 2, 2008 at 8:07 pm
I was in a discussion last evening with a mentor. We were talking about fasting and prayer. He asked me why prayer was such a huge part of fasting. I asked why. He said because fasting not only is discipline of you self but it open you up to receive from the supernatural. Fasting without prayer is dangerous. When Jesus fasted satan came to tempt him.
Looking back I can see how this is true. Some will no doubt look at Yoga and say, “But it connects me to God. I meditate and connect.” Meditation is not prayer. I want to erase myself in prayer but not so I can gain a higher consciousness but so I can give Jesus Christ all I have and become more like him.
Posted by Minister Marcus on August 25, 2009 at 10:04 pm
I totally agree with this statement posted by this person, and I want to add to what they have said. We should note that yoga being an eastern religion is not about God as we know him, and anytime you allow your spirit, or concious to search for it’s higher self then you are already opening yourself up not to the ocult as somone said, but simply to demonic subjugation.
One person said that he didn’t see the big deal in it because he a “Christian Yoga Teacher at his church” Well then you are a practicioner of a pagan worship experience. How can you practice being in tune with your own spirit, and say that as a christian you are aligning yourself with the spirit of Christ? Only one can be in control, and Christ won’t share his space with the enemy.
The bible teaches us to put on the whole (entire) armour of God so that you can stand against the wiles (shemes, tricks, trickery) of the devil. He makes something that is in reality deadly to your spirit seem so innocent. If you have a real relationship with God, then something in your spirit should be setting of alarm bells and warnings that something about reaching your inner peace is wrong. We take God for a fool. He never stated that we would find our own peace because his word saya “My peace I give you”, and another scripture says “He will keep us in perfect peace for those of us who keep our minds on him”. It has nothing to do with us thinking about clouds, rain, quiet woods or anything tranquil because it is only the peace of God passes all understanding.
It baffles me sometimes. People we need to study the word of God more. I wonder who the pastor of this church is? His members are in jeapordy.
Posted by Eastern Church? on October 30, 2009 at 1:52 am
Your statement puzzles me…. “We should note that yoga being an eastern religion is not about God as we know him”… Jesus came from the East not the Western variation of Christianity.
In fact, much of Jesus’s message was thrown out at the Council of Nicea.
That you chose not to add yoga practice to your mind, body, spirit prayer… you’re call, but
scaring people from wanting union with God doesn’t make any sense to you.
Posted by jonyeong on November 4, 2009 at 8:00 pm
THIS IS A VERY GOOD STATEMENT!! CLEARLY U KNOW THE TRUTH!! YOGA IS WRONG!!! IN THE EYES OF THE LORD
Posted by Anna on April 7, 2008 at 11:59 am
Well, I find it extraordinarily interesting
Posted by David on June 5, 2008 at 3:18 pm
this is an important point – but it is also only my opinion.
The root of the word yoga is the notion of yoking, or harnessing, and this is often interpreted in the sense of uniting, or putting togeather. It is true that yoga is usually seen as uniting the individual self with the universal self. In other words it is viewed as a religious process; and in India the universal is viewed as the supreme Hindu deity. All this is true…and false.
The classical text on yoga is the ‘Yoga Sutra’, attributed to Patanjali, and it has aquired a number of commentaries which have become accepted as authorative; that is: the yoga sutra means what they say it means. The authors of the commentaries were in my view, based on what they say about the yoga sutra, professional religionists i.e. priests; and therefore their interpretation of the yoga sutra is religious. In my view those traditional commentators were attempting to hijack and distort the real meaning and significance of yoga – which is not religious.
Yoga means to harness. the purpose of yoga is to harness the lower self, or the ego; that is the physical, emotional, mental human self. This is accomplished by the real self, which is the seer, or witness, or the pure consciousness, that each of us is at our core.
Mastery of the personal self is fundamental to normal human life. To be a fully grown-up and developed human each of us must learn to control our bodies, emotions and thoughts. That is what education and growing up is supposed to be about; learning to walk, talk and use the potty are just the earliest stages in the process.
Yoga takes that normal process of development much further; yoga involves a more complete development and eventually mastery of the personal or egic self; and a consequence of this is awakening to the nature of the real self; which some call enlightenment.
Posted by reader on August 5, 2008 at 1:07 pm
It feels great to read someone echo my beliefs. I had learnt Yoga in Bombay, India 16 years ago. I will tell you what exactly it is.
Yoga (pronounced yogue, as in vogue)means union. Here, it is in the context of uniting one’s person or being, with the ’supreme’ being. There are 8 steps to attaining this unity. Hence, Yoga is called Ashtaang Yoga, or 8-part Yoga. It begins with physical exercises, goes onto process (kriya), pranayaam (regulated breathing), …dhaarna (concentration), dhyaan (attention/meditation–not biblical) and finally samaadhi, or trance. They say, if you stay in samaadhi for 72+ hours, you get united with the ’supreme’. This means you die and do not re-enter your physical body.
Doing all this is absolutely against the Word of God. Through yoga, Man tries to reach ‘god’ by his own efforts, while the Bible clearly shows that it is impossible for us to know God and reach Him on our own. “By grace through faith” is how we are saved. It is akin to the Tower of Babel–man trying to build his way to heaven. What a deception! And BECAUSE you contradict the Bible and offend God by practising yoga, Satan gets a legal right in God’s eyes to enter the life of the sinner and harass him, may be even help/benefit him by ‘healing’ a few diseases, but eventually taking him to hell. Jesus said if your right eye causes you to sin, chop it off. It is better to go to heaven with one eye than have a healthy body and rot in hell forever and ever!
Invisible energy paths called naadees open up when you practise yoga. They facilitate demons to enter your body and alter your mental makeup and reasoning/logic. For the unsaved, they may never trust Jesus or know Him fully–so they would end up in hell. For the saved, it can cause torment as they would have sinned against their very Saviour.
As they say, why take the risk when you know that you would be dealing with the unseen world? Most people mean well–to worship God Almighty, but they really do not know who He is. At least those who know Him, should desist.
Posted by Wendy on August 14, 2008 at 11:04 pm
I practice Yoga and have been searching for a church that I can attend with the family to worship God. Our yoga path is to unite the practitioner with an experience of God. In my opinion this is completely in line with the teaching Jesus gave us: the Kingdom of god is within you. A yoga/meditation path will enhance the teachings of Jesus on how to meditate on God and experience that within ourselves. In order to practice both yoga and christianity you need to find a positive liberal church. Fundamentalist churches with notions of going to hell, satan etc. are not going to create a harmonious practice uniting with God. I found the united church to be most in allignment with my spiritual beliefs and yoga practice.
Posted by Minister Marcus on August 25, 2009 at 10:05 pm
WOW..
Posted by jesusblogger on August 15, 2008 at 9:05 pm
The ‘higher power’ Yoga connects one with is far from being the Spirit of God. Hell, Satan and Sin are all biblical concepts which Jesus taught in the Gospels and the Apostles and Old Testament Prophets believed in. To believe otherwise is to invent your own brand of religion, which I would not call Christianity.
Posted by Minister Marcus on August 25, 2009 at 10:07 pm
The word said that in the last days men would fall prey to seducing spirits. I know we are in that era when churches allow yoga in the temples. WOW my mind is blown. That is why it’s so important for the people of God to stay focused on him becuse the enemy has pulled the wool over so many peoples eyes.
Posted by Chris on August 29, 2008 at 9:46 am
I attended a yoga and meditation weekend hosted by a catholic monk – I was an atheist at the time, and felt a great spiritual awakening and am now myself a catholic. It would seem that, rather than putting me in the presence of the devil, yoga and meditation has contributed to bringing me to the presence of God…
Posted by MikeNZ on September 2, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Chris
If you’re a Catholic you may not be a Christian at all but decieved.
If you consider yourself a Catholic then you may already be in Idolatry as your a Catholic before you’re a Christian.
Where is the allegiance of your heart?
Is it to Rome or Jesus?
As for Yoga, I used to practice all sorts of things as part of my spiritual lifestyle, like many people I was synergistic and mixed and matched whatever I liked.
Eric Von Danican, astral traveling, martial arts, yoga, seances, prayer lodge.
I knew the spirit world before I became a Christian experientially, then I changed the allegience of my heart to Jesus.
I had to make the decision that anything that didn’t lead me to Him wasn’t of him.
On the last day the only thing that will matter is are you His.
Your education, money, achievements whatever will be worth nothing.
Going to church and being in the band, doing good works knowing your bible, being a signed up member of a congregation, none of it will matter.
The only thing that will matter is, do you know Him and does He know you?
Posted by HECTOR on October 23, 2009 at 2:33 am
NUTTER
Posted by MikeNZ on September 2, 2008 at 11:40 pm
That should read syncrenistic.
Posted by Ven on October 9, 2008 at 3:13 pm
MikeNZ:
That’s kind of sad telling Chris he may not be a christian. Call it what you want, that’s casting judgment on another. Last time I checked, it wasn’t our job to judge people. Instead, we are to love one another as God loves us.
As a pastor that does yoga exercises, I see no issue. Any exercise routine can slide into the selfish (bodybuilders are not trying to be healthy, they’re trying to be big and show off), which in turn leads to sin. But with humility and wisdom, you can also have a healthy, flexible body and not risk slipping and sliding into selfish sin.
As for Chris being a catholic, there is nothing wrong with attending catholic church, or any church for that matter, so long as the path you’re on leads you to listening to the Holy Spirit, loving and following God through the love of Jesus Christ.
Posted by dontoleratesin on July 27, 2009 at 9:09 pm
By their fruit you will recognize them. – Jesus Christ
Yoga – not good fruit
Catholic – not good fruit
Posted by HECTOR on October 23, 2009 at 2:35 am
HYPOCRITE, DO YOU READ WHAT YOU WRITE?
Posted by donna on October 15, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Yoga is a gateway to demons. The movements is Yoga stimulate your pineal gland which some call your third eye. When you open your third eye you can see into the demonic spiritual realm. There are other ways to open your third eye, chanting, meditating, hypnosis, the fast way(lsd acid pcp ect.) The shamens used a certain root to open the third eye. Once open you begin to talk to “spirits, ascended masters, gods, the dead, ect. Why do anything that pagans do, we are called to come out of the world.
Posted by Nemo on December 31, 2008 at 10:45 pm
The biggest mistake one can make, from the way I see it, is to judge a religion or the spirituality of a areal where people live, through the percepts of another religion.
I understand that, if yoga is to open the doorway to unholy entities and demons, this means that for, maybe thousands on years, the Indians, the Tibetans, the Red-Skins of Northern America, the African shamans, all those people are nothing but a bunch of crazy satanists. You know, all of them practice for many hundreds of years various types of meditation practices, which in many ways are similar to yoga.
Let me just have a big laugh about that
Posted by jesusblogger on December 31, 2008 at 11:40 pm
There is only One God and one way to Him – Jesus.
Everything else is false. No laughing matter.
Posted by Serg on June 26, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Nemo, one of enemy tactics is to make you believe it’s not there. so you may laugh but let me ask you this. There’s black magic and white magic, which one come from satan? or may be both… You see, having a label of good intentions doesn’t necessarily make it right. Think…
Posted by Darwin on January 2, 2009 at 7:35 am
Pat Gresham. your the one who has been fooled. Number 1. Faith isn’t strong or weak. It is or isn’t, little or big. Faith is a great thing it can’t be weak But no wonder you don’t know that. ” Christian Yoga” Thast like” clean “imprisoned free” christianity isn’t an oxymoron. ANYTHING that is flesh focused is of the flesh You are an asnswer to the prophecy of Paul. In the last days people will follow the doctrine of demons wanting to have their itchy ears tickled. Why the need to call it “yoga”. Why not fitness. I am a certified fitness instructor ISSA,So It’s not just an opinion You need the yoga because you are of your father the devil. You can be fit without the name yoga ” ie. yoke” Thats what the word means so you are an unrighteously yoked christian. Our only yoke is the yoke of CHRIST. Repent , you and those who follow ” you” not the SAVIOR. Yoga has no place in the born again man. Then again you speak like a religious person not a true believer. Unless you be born again you can’t even see the KINGDOM your focus is fleshly. Please don’t lead any more astray. You must listen to the HOLY SPIRIT. Not a spirit. but then again I’m just another weak faith person right! LOL
Posted by Darwin on January 2, 2009 at 7:49 am
Ven. read your bible instead of ” freeing your mind” hippie. Paul said we are to judge those inside the church. God judges those outside. Do a bible search I will give you a hint it is in 1 COR. between chapter 4 and 6 just in case you don’t get it thats 1 Corinthians chapter 5 read the whole chapter it will do you good. If Chris calls himself a christian then he fits those inside the church. Come on stop being spoon fed, read the WORD for yourself. “We aren’t to judge, we aren’t to judge, duh” Read the WORD. (Please) context is key. Jesus didn’t mean to just look the other way at sin in the church, thats hippie liberalism, by the way nice cat on your web page (WOW) Thats all the church needs.
Posted by faith.hope.love on January 17, 2009 at 8:41 am
I believe that names of beings / practices are significant, and some of the names associated with yoga are the Hindu god Shiva (known as ‘The Destroyer’) and hatha (a stream of yoga meaning ‘to oppress’). In yoga, the physical postures intend to oppress the ‘psychic streams’ running up the spinal column, in order to allow a ’serpent spirit’ to climb the spine and reach the head.
As a Christian who is involved with deliverence ministry, I know that this serpent spirit can manifest in people who have practiced yoga. If you are a Christian and believe that there are evil powers and principalities in the world, why risk undertaking exercises that may open yourself to such things? Surely you can find other equivalent exercises that don’t have so much attachment to false gods?
Additionally, Darwin, I find your response to Ven particularly sarcastic and hostile. I encourage you to speak to your brothers and sisters with love and grace, even those you don’t know personally.
Posted by freja on January 22, 2009 at 9:27 am
I am glad that i have heard about this, i have always been pondering whether i should do yoga, and even did about two minutes of jane fonda yoga, and lucky i felt lazy and didnt want to continue, or i would be posessed by a demon. I am not ever going to do yoga, how ew! I dont want to be posessed, i dont want to go to hell. for all those people who are debating whether or not to do yoga and the possibilties of affecting your christian faith, i suggest that you should avoid yoga, i would rather not go to hell than ‘have fun’ doing yoga. Look beyond your pride and even if the whole thing may be wrong, i would rather be wrong than be possed by a demon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DEMON DEOMON I TELL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by UGK on January 26, 2009 at 10:26 am
Christians are just as prone to get possesed by demons withut practising yoga. Look at all the church paedophiles and the pope. I am sure they dont do yoga.
Basic yoga for improving flexibility is good. But the advanced Kundalini stuff is certainly dangerous and can cause imbalances in the mind and body.
Posted by Levi on January 27, 2009 at 6:45 am
UGK. Right now we are talking about yoga and not other millions of crap satan has for humans to delude them from the truth. Be vigilant for satan moves like a lion whom to rend, to steal, kill and to destroy. I am an Indian and even I know about yoga and its consequences. Shame on the people who call themselves pastors and preach it is OK to do this and that which is not found in the Bible, deceiving many. You have been tools of satan to deceive the very elect. Remember, I am not against you or the any human who is practising it, but against the evil which has made you to do it. Jesus did not despise the sinners but the sin. I have only one thing to repeat: Repent or Perish. Read the Bible, be led by the Holy Ghost and be in His presence to be enlightened.
Posted by Levi on January 27, 2009 at 6:56 am
And moreover talking about your health. Keep His word, do what pleases Him, do not be gluttonous, be led by Him and not by any man.
Proverbs (KJV):
3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
3:4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
3:5 ¶ Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
3:7 ¶ Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
3:8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
It is better to seek health than healing. God bless you all.
Posted by Mc on July 13, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Yoga cannot in any way unite u with God only by prayers en faith can u do so there is only one God meditate only through prayer
Posted by dei on July 21, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Such ignorance, religious beliefs that encourage the idea of separation from god are man-made because it is the ego talking and centuries of forced beliefs and social programming
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Think about the power you can achieve from merging with all that is. Yoga is a way as meditation. demons only exist as personal creations of people influenced by religion into believing in them and any believer that demonizes another spiritual practice by mere ignorance should question the goodness in his heart. satan only began to exist the exact moment someone created him and convinces other to believe in him. our thoughts are what need to change in order for our reality to change. If your thoughts are about love, unity and a world demon-free, that is the reality you will create.if your thoughts are about there being a hell and purgatory, satan etc that is the twisted world you will live in. so who lives in a better world? religious fanatics with their sick notions of good and evil, holy punishment or, people who believe in yoga, love, unity with all that is and in a world we can change by focusing only on positive beliefs?
you do the math if blind unquestioned faith hasn’t already rotted your common sense…
Posted by dontoleratesin on July 27, 2009 at 9:38 pm
…spoken like a true God-hating atheist. Satan himself will try to get you to doubt Jesus and to doubt God himself. Genesis 3:1, first question ever – “Did God really say…?” When you doubt God like dei suggests, you fall, you sin, and you wonder from your first Love. Don’t do it; don’t be deceived. Hell is is as real as eternal separation from God. If you hate God, you will surely be judged for all your sin and live forever in hell, even if you “peacefully” sun-salutation your way there.
Posted by dontoleratesin on July 27, 2009 at 10:15 pm
“merging with all that is”? your desire for that “power” blinds you from truth dei. don’t desire and worship all that there is, because SIN and GOD are not ONE but SEPARATE. HE IS HOLY, the Lord laid down his life so that you might see clearly and offers you eternal life with God. He loves you and wants to pull you up out of the darkness and deceit…
There is EVIL in this world, LOTS OF EVIL in darkened hearts of human beings, don’t be fooled, , there is victory in Christ, and Christ alone. SIN is real and deeper than you will know. It is a messy world and as Christians, we need to be light and salt. Why promote the practices of pagans? Why not promote the Lord?! Jesus doesn’t teach us to go into private and practice yoga, he says go into private and PRAY… to develop a relationship with the living Christ, the Person of GOD. He doesn’t say, ok inhale deeply and exhale through your nose while pressing your seat into the air, coming into a cobra and bowing into yourself!
Sin is stealing life on every street corner and lets be real, we live in a world of men and women who are placing their lives into the hands of Satan and his demons daily… murder, theft, adultery, lies, self-idolatry, human trafficking, slavery, greed, hatred, anger, sloth, denying Jesus in word and deed, selfish pusuits, injustice, lust, sexual immorality, pagan practices, drunkeness, PRIDE ….
ROMANS 1:21- 25: For although they knew God, they did not HONOR HIM AS GOD or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. CLAIMING TO BE WISE, THEY BECAME FOOLS, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they EXCHANGED THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD FOR A LIE and WORSHIPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever!
Don’t be fooled, don’t exchange truth for a lie, don’t “merge with all that there is”, be children of light for the sake of the one who keeps His promisees.
Submit yourselves to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you. James 4:7
Yoga is not for you, no no no, this is not for you Christian.
Posted by Carl on October 18, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Yoga was developed by a culture that is saturated in demonic worship. You cannot seperate the practice of yoga from the religion that created it which is hinduism. This practice is disguised as “exercise” for the western culture but actually its a form of demonic worship. Yoga,acupuncture, etc are all part of the orient religion.
Posted by Arnoud on October 14, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Man, are you sick. What does Yoga have to do with Christianity? And what do you have to do with Christianity? Don’t you think stupidity, narrow mindedness, preaching fear is making your life less rich and more sad, but is making God sad as well. You’re a disgrace !
Posted by jesusblogger on October 14, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Arnoud, you asked a good question: “what does Yoga have to do with Christianity/”
Indeed.
Posted by HECTOR on October 23, 2009 at 2:10 am
YOU PEOPLE NEED HELP, YOU NUTTERS
Posted by OneforChrist on October 23, 2009 at 2:53 am
As a young teen, I heard about “yoga” and it’s ’spiritual” influence. I’ve never “practiced” it and never will.
Of all the things that one must do, the meditation part scared me the most. According to what I had read on ‘yoga” and meditation. One had to “open” their mind and clear it of all thoughts in order to “unite” one’s self, with the “supreme” being and achieve “enlightenment”. This struck me as odd. Who or what is/was this “supreme being”, I had to ask myself. Upon further reading, I found that it was not God. At least not our Heavenly Father.
As Minister Marcus states from the Word of God:
Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
As Levi states from the Word of God:
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Too many “Christians” want to be like the world and do as the world does by conforming and “justifying”.
Paul exhorts us in Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
What is the necessity to “do” yoga that one would compromise their walk with God?
Posted by Esme on November 11, 2009 at 7:32 am
Im really confused. Please help me. im an 18 year old girl. I take Yoga in school. i find it interesting and it does seem to help me. i used to go to church a lot. I BELIEVE in God. I want to be able to love him one day with all my heart. If Yoga is impeding me from connecting with God or if im at risk of being “possessed” please tell me. Is it okay to take Yoga??
i only do it cause i want to become flexible.
but all i see is all these arguments.
someone out there with God in their hearts be honest.
thank you