The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | AUGUST 1936

My whole body in a state of collapse. It suddenly burst upon me while at prayer to pray against all psychic power exercised upon me (psychic) prayer”. By faith in the power of the Blood of Christ I cut myself off from it, and the result was remarkable. Instantly my breathing became normal, the hemorrhage stopped, exhaustion vanished, all pain fled, and life came back into my body. I have been refreshed and invigorated ever since. God let me know in confirmation of this deliverance, that my condition was the effect of a group of deceived souls who are in opposition to me ‘praying’ about me! God has used me to the deliverance of two of them, but the rest of them are in an awful pit.

This is not the only instance which has come to my knowledge within the last few months, of the fresh dangers coming upon spiritual believers, through the deepening tribulation conditions which are coming to pass throughout the whole inhabited earth. Through these other instances it appears that this generation of soul-force under the guise of prayer, is most likely to take place in those who have had great supernatural experiences, and have in some way opened themselves to evil spirits. These souls seem, in some way, to get what might be called a fanatical spirit of insistence that other believers should come into the same experience that they have had, and if they in any way refuse to seek these experiences, or appear to these souls to be a block in the path of others obtaining these supernatural manifestations, they direct, as they think, “prayer” upon them, that they should be punished by God with judgment, or that they should be compelled to yield to what these souls call “the truth.”

But this is very much like where they would not receive Him, when they came to a village where they would not receive Him, “Lord, wilt Thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” And the Lord replied, “Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.”

God never uses compulsion to force any soul into receiving Him, even for their own benefit. God, the Holy Ghost, recognizes the human responsibility of man’s own choice, whether God shall be in or not.

So we would earnestly warn God’s servants—truly God’s servants—who seem to be concerned about others who will not seek their own particular line of “blessings,” and pray them to commit these other believers to God, and not to lay themselves open to the danger of generating soul-force by directing what


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