Sorry about the bold letters. It didn’t work to copy and paste the article below. Anyway, what I want to say is that I am open to your direction! Increasingly, these authors are being read by my sisters. This morning, I typed, Why are Sarah Young’s books deceptive?” What I read further alarmed me. Do I have wrong thinking about these books??
I threw Jesus Calling by Sarah Young into the trash at the Chicago O’Hare Airport. I felt empty, bereft after the garbage can swallowed the book. I’d had a similar experience with Ann Voskamp’s One Thousand Gifts when I’d checked it out from the library. I’d just gotten into the book when God asked me to leave it alone and return it.
Why did the Holy Spirit whisper that I shouldn’t read these books?
As a little girl, I’d sleep with a Raggedy Ann doll wrapped tightly in my arms. This illustration came to me as I thought of devotional books written by those who teach another Jesus (2 Corinthians 11:4). “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me” (Matthew 16:24). Modern day devotionals often craftily teach an independent spirit that says, “How I live is between me and a Jesus who loves me intimately.” This spirit does not need a brotherhood.
Sarah Young says in Jesus Calling, “When your Joy in Me meets My Joy in you, there are fireworks of heavenly ecstasy.” Or again, “Wear my Love like a cloak of Light, covering you from head to toe.” Is this Jesus speaking? No! These are the words of a modern, liberal woman. This teaches another Jesus and delves into the occult.
The same goes for Ann Voskamp in One Thousand Gifts. The message of “In everything give thanks” (1 Thessalonians 5:16) is biblical and important, but her book teaches false doctrine. Voskamp says, “Mystical union. This is the highest degree of importance. God as Husband in sacred wedlock, bound together, body, and soul, fed by His body, quenched by His blood. . . God, He has blessed – caressed. I could bless God – caress with thanks.
The last chapter of the Bible says, “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”
The Bible is a safe guide. Let’s read it and other sound teachings printed by the Church. Truth unites us with our brothers and sisters. “Buy the truth and sell it not.” Berniece 8/29/22
An Ordinary Life 
Thank you. I was given *Jesus Always, Embracing Joy in His Presence by Sarah Young*. Although there is much Biblical truth in it and I sometimes still read it and look up the scripture references, there is something lacking of the whole Gospel and teachings of Jesus.
Don’t confuse Jesus Calling with God Calling , edited by A J Russel.
God Calling was written abt. 1932 and given to me by my mother. It has been meaningful to me and I would like to know if you’ve read it.
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Sarah Young’s books teach “another Jesus” (2 Corinthians 11:4). It is foolish to think we can handle reading them.
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The truth. I’m so glad you shared this. God bless you for not being hindered. BB
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