WHY I NO LONGER PRACTICE YOGA

Warning: if you read this you will no longer be ignorant to the evil attached to yoga.

An individual’s brightness can only be achieved in the complete letting go of the darkness in which they are bound.

I have many good hearted Christian friends who teach and do yoga. I have never judged them, belittled them, degraded them, mocked them, laughed at them, made fun of them, spoke negatively against them or criticized them for their personal beliefs and practices. I love them very much. Please apply the same respect for my testimony and what the Lord has shown me in my personal walk with Him.

I will always choose to OBEY and say what He puts on my heart over what others will say and think. I am not here to make “friends” with the world. I am here to make His glorious gospel and everlasting Kingdom known. To God be the glory!

I have found the closer I desire to be like God and Christ, the more I abhor all evil.

Here is my testimony:

“Good morning class, let us start in goddess pose”.

This was the very last pose I ever did. As I held this pose I couldn’t help but think what does God think of me holding a goddess pose? What would Christ think? It’s like all of a sudden I’m actually conscience in my actions and behavior. It’s not “just stretching” like I justified in my mind.

When I returned home I decided to research what the goddess pose stood for and the results disgusted me.

“TheGoddessPose(UtkataKonasana) is a worship offering to the fierce, dark, intimidating goddess named Kali. Kali’s appearance could be described as terrifying…”

I hit my knees in tears. “Lord forgive me! ThankyouFatherforyourmercies, your grace, and your forgiveness. Thankyouforopeningmyeyes! Thank you for winking at my ignorance, I will be ignorant in this matter no longer.”

A few hours later a strong Christian woman sent me a message stating, “I think Yoga isn’t a practice Christians should be partaking in.” Chills ran up my arms. God had established it. That’s all the confirmation I needed to never practice yoga again.

What is Yoga?

Yoga is a spiritual practice where you are yoking yourself to a Hindu god.

What are the vast majority of yoga poses for?

• To worship false gods.

• To pose as false gods.

• To be like false gods.

• To be unified with false gods.

WE ARE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE MOST HIGH GOD.

We are not to worship the sun in a sun pose, stand like a goddess, become one with the universe, or act and resemble animals.

“Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars!” Psalm 148:3

“And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan!Foritiswritten,‘Youshallworship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’” Matthew 4:9-10

“You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.” Exodus 20:3-5

There are many other ways to stay fit. Simply stretch if you need to stretch. We should never degrade ourselves so low as to the worshipping of false gods, or to be like gods. We should have a great respect and reverence for our Temples! We are the Living Temples of the Living God. Should our Temple bow down to evil?

“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.” Ephesians 5:1

We should strive to be like God. We should be an example of Christ. We should only worship God.

“Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.” 1 John 2:6 ESV

Article by Jacqueline