I know I am going to get a lot of backlash about this topic, but oh well!!…..I am here to let you all know the truth….
Can we chat about “Yoga” for a minute? What do you really know about this practice? Yes guys!! it is considered a practice to those in India….
Did you know that certain moves, stretches, and breathing techniques associated with Yoga are postures that are offered to the millions of Hindu gods? Over 300 million to be exact….
And, do you know that most believers that are doing these practices for what they call “relaxation and other reasons,” don’t even know what they are opening themselves up to?.
Yep, folks shocked me too!!
But, do you see how following the trends of the world and jumping on the bandwagon can get you caught up? (Rom. 12:2)
Yoga postures are really considered offerings to gods. Man made gods….
And, by doing these different postures and breathing techniques along with the meditation associated with it, allows you to be accepted by a god, little “G.”
Romans 12:1-2 says we are to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice to God, “not to other gods you know nothing about.”
Every single body position has a meaning, and you think it’s all innocent…..See how subtill the enemy is ( Gen. 3:1) Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
See how he tries to get you to think another thought other than the right one…this is what he does….
In yoga they do what they call (pranayama) breathing ( Prana) for short in the Hindu language
This Yoga breathing technique attempts to manipulate that which they call (life’s energy)life energy is the energy that is present in living things (??) Ok …I guess anything living has energy, as I read in its definition….moving on.
This practice sees (quote on quote ) life’s energy as perilous ( dangerous) this is why they have you do breathing exercises to remove this “so called” dangerous energy just to bring in another energy…..
And, let’s not forget about their mind clearing exercises… where the instructor tries to takes you to a place where you are told to “clear your mind and go into a place of imagining the sound of rushing waters or an open field ( etc)”
“That is a dangerous thing,” because when you open your mind up and God or His Word isn’t the center of it, that allows the enemy to have free range without your knowledge…..
yoga positions were created with demonic intent to open you up to demonic power because that’s what Hinduism is demonic.( Go watch the Hinduism Documentary from CNN on YouTube)
Hinduism literally means “religion of India. The religion is so tied to the heritage of India that the idea of worshipping only one God, like in Christianity, is considered offensive.
Westernized Hinduism includes practices such as meditation, yoga and rituals.This is what most people are doing today in Yoga practices …regardless of the style or type…..Yoga is Yoga!!!
Participating in such practices actually brings you out from under the blood of Jesus…..Ephesians 2:2, that Satan is the prince of the power of the air. We are not talking about oxygen.”
Yoga originated in ancient India and is Oftentimes trying to unite to a higher power, not Jesus!!
The believers who practice yoga and say things like “they don’t focus on its pagan origins”, but they just stay focused on Jesus (is a lie) because the two do not and can not mix…..Yoga often includes chant, and chanting “Jesus” while doing yoga does not mix, which still opens you up to the demonic realm. ” NO MATTER HOW YOU TRY AND JUSTIFY IT”
How can you think that emptying your mind in Yoga is okay? I mean how can you do that living for Christ? Wouldn’t that be contrary to what being a believer teaches?
Even when a believer is meditating, their mind is still on the Lord and His Word….zoning in on scripture or what He has spoken directly to you.
I mean come on….this is how we as believers get transformed and that is by the renewing of the mind with God’s word and ways of living, not by the cleaning and clearing of one’s mind for demonic rituals…
In yoga they teach that the person engaging in it connect to nature and that nature and God become one, but where in the Bible does it say we as believers must connect to nature? It doesn’t because God and nature cannot become one, if that was the case He would not have had any need to create us and connect to us ( His people).
we learn that in the word that God’s people meditate, but to meditate on God’s Word.
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it…,” Joshua 1:8 (ESV).
“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things,” Colossians 3:2.
And the Bible teaches God’s people to offer their whole selves in worship, but the offering should be only to God, not to themselves or to other gods….
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship,” Romans 12:1.
The Bible also teaches the need for focus and renewal of the human mind, but it is to be renewed to know God better, personally.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will,” Romans 12:2.
(Please read the CNN report
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