There may be a question of, how can the enneagram be new age? The enneagram, although claimed as a personality test, is not. It is a geometric shape configured of nine sides, and was produced through automatic writing, which is trace-channeling demons. Some have even labeled it as the demonic version or perversion of the Holy Spirit, which is the spirit of the antichrist. It is like a form of divination.
The enneagram is advertised as helping to find “one-self”or understand ourselves, but it is a false self, a sinful self, a fleshly self, creating a self-focused attitude. Sadly, they try to lock us in by thinking it helps us find our true selves and answers to the “why are we the way we are.” We need to keep in mind that The Lord has already answered many of our questions and although they may be hard to hear, we need to be open to hearing them.
We will not hear them from the main-stream or through demonic means, though. We will only find those answers through genuinely seeking the words of the Lord, trusting Him above ourselves, and letting Him show us the ugly parts in us and around us, while giving them to Him as we crucify those ugly parts and guard ourselves, repenting for them and letting Christ transform our hearts. In turn, the Lord can take everything the enemy intended for evil and bring about so much good from it.
As Ecclesiastes 12:12-14 reminds us, “But beyond this, my son, be warned, the writing of many books is endless, and the excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body. The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.”
New Age is very well known for pulling from other forms of religions that pull from false gods or ancient philosophies, built off of the influence of the enemy and his demons, to distract us with finding our identities or being stress free. They repackage the names to seem okay, and sometimes even close to what God says but it is not the full truth of what God says.. They house it as harmless, but once we begin to unpackage the enemy’s lies, we see the truth behind the mask. It becomes about either focused on idols (idolatry), self (creating a self-worship), acting as if you are your own god, and/or making someone/something into a ‘god’. In turn, it focuses our shift away from what the Lord has told us and moves us towards worshipping self, control, and worldly achievements in wealth and worldly pleasures; which also gets our focus being materialistic. This is why we have to test everything back to the Word and also the origins of things.
There is this illusion that we need to take tests to understand ourselves and/or the ill ways about us. That is not so as the Lord has already told us that He is the one who searches and checks the desires of our hearts.
The only thing we need to help us identify the ill ways within us, is the good Lord and His word and His Spirit.
We will also find our greater purpose which is what many of us get mentally paralyzed over and freeze.
God’s Word is filled with knowledge and wisdom to renew us into Christlike children of God, which is why it’s so important to share the truth of God and the entirety of the scriptures. The Word of God is forever living and enduring (1 Peter 1:23) purifying our souls for sincere love (1 Peter 1:22).
All we have to do is dig into our Heavenly Father’s Words to His children to truly know. It’s not just Proverbs 31 that is great for us to read. Sisters, the entire Word of God is useful for teaching, correcting, and rebuking. May we allow the Lord to rebuke the ill ways within us if they are there! ALL of the books in the Bible need to be searched, read, and taken in with our whole hearts. There is NOTHING that is able to break through a hard heart like the Word of God! Each moment within tells a bigger story to us. Each section is detailed in such a way that can pierce through a sinful heart and replace it with a new, making dry bones come to life! (Ezekiel 36-37)
Each passage has restoration promises out of the grip of sin and a self focused mindset. We see God in action. We see God’s power, wisdom, and character. We see who God is! In turn, we lose the “I” mindset and the Lord helps us to be focused on God and His Son. We get to see exactly why self (our flesh) should be denied and crucified. We see why God’s plan IS always much better. We get to deny the thoughts to sway us from the greater picture at hand. We get to truly understand how Joseph, Job, and Jesus kept their eyes on the Father and not their circumstances. We come to see the true meaning behind, “Not I, but Christ.”
This day in age, we are surrounded by a self-focused mindset that we forget the very mindset in which we are called to have. We are called to deny ourselves, not parade ourselves. We are called to be honest and humble, not dishonest and prideful. “Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NASB1995
There is nothing more freer than humbling ourselves to the Father, being totally honest and concrite in heart (Psalm 34:14-20), totally focused on denying the flesh and removing any ill way about us (Matthew 16:24-26). We must be asking the Lord to renew our hearts, minds, and souls, no longer wanting to take part in the ways of the world (Psalm 51:1-17). That’s the only focus on ourselves we need to be worried about. (Romans 13:10-14)
Our faithfulness comes from who we trust and believe in, not who we think we are or who someone says we are.
May we “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:4-7 NASB1995
Psalm 19:1-14
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