Jan 17, 2022
The Ex-Astrologer has given her heart to the Lord and had a powerful experience with the Holy Spirit and the Love of God. She now is searching for a place to call her church. In her search she saw that many churches were practicing New Age, Yoga, and the Emmeagram Movement they had no idea these are practices of other religions and fallen angels, not God
Now what? Marcia began to read the Bible. She started in Matthew, the first book of the New Testament. Reading the Bible put her in touch with something pure that she had not experienced until then. Although she had read the Bible before while growing up and had quoted from it for astrological articles, this time it was different. She felt as though she was encountering something clean.
This person Jesus fascinated
her. Marcia says,
“It was as though I was learning about Him for the first time. One
winter evening on Dec. 21st, while reading part of the 8th chapter
of Matthew, the real Jesus was revealed to me. I was reading the
account of Jesus on the boat with His disciples when a terrible
storm arose. The disciples were afraid they would drown, and so
they woke Jesus up, telling Him that they were going to perish.
Jesus stopped the storm in its tracks! How? He did not visualize
calm waters, He did not perform a ritual. He rebuked the winds and
the sea, and they obeyed him. He was displaying his authority over
nature.
While reading this account over and over, I realized that I was
separated from God by everything I had done in my past -- I had
lived my whole life based on my will, a will that had rejected and
dismissed God and His word. I realized that the only way to be
forgiven of being against God, the only way to be reconciled with
this true God, was through Jesus, who suffered and died for me out
of a great unconditional love. I realized that Jesus really is the
Savior. I realized that he had died because everyone had gone their
own way and gone against God, like myself, but would be forgiven
when trusting in Jesus.”
In
those several minutes sitting on her bed with the Bible, she knew
that the truth and the answer to all her questions were one and the
same: Jesus Christ! So, that day, she gave her
heart to Christ and knew she belonged to Him from that moment on.
At that moment, she realized she was a new person inside. This was
the Holy Spirit indwelling and regenerating her! She was born
again!
Several months later, she found out that a young Christian man at
the part-time job where she worked (as a secret astrologer giving
astrological advice to the boss about employees) had been praying
for her with a fellowship group at his church during
1990.
You are going to hear Marcia talk a little about yoga, enneagram, and new age and how it has creeped in the church.
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me," - John 14:6.
"But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." - John 4:14
"I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst." - John 6:35
"And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.'" - Matthew 28:18
(You will find Marcia's story with more detail in Chapter 10 of The Unexpected Journey (Zondervan) by Thom S. Rainer. This book contains the firsthand accounts of 12 people who came to faith in Christ from other spiritual beliefs and told their stories to Dr. Rainer. Marcia's testimony has been published in many other publications, including the end of the chapter on Astrology in The Kingdom of the Occult, by Walter Martin, Jill Martin Rische, and Kurt Van Gorden. These books are sold on Amazon and also on the Christian Book site at www.christianbook.com, and can also be found in or ordered by bookstores).
If you’d like to get in touch with Marcia or know more about her story, you can go to her website: http://www.christiananswersforthenewage.org/AboutCANA_SpiritualJourney.html
Or reach out to her on FB: https://www.facebook.com/FormerNewAger
Or email her at: theexastrologer@gmail.com