The whole world has been affected by the COVID-19 virus and the reactions to it run the gamut from rampant fear to complete denial.

I used try to discern the deeper truths in dramatic world events such as this one. From the AIDS epidemic first reported in 1981, to September 11, 2001 and the horrific events 911, and all the smaller national and international events in between, I watched and analyzed noting how the world was transformed by changes impressed deeply into the fabric of the way things are done, at many levels especially at the governmental levels. I reacted in the same ways that those around me did, becoming baffled, confused, afraid.

I think most baby-boomers and those born in the years after can safely say that nothing on a scale such as this COVID-19 pandemic has ever been seen before in our lifetime. The measures taken have virtually paralyzed the globe.

This time for me, however, my experience of it is completely different.

Because I surrendered my life to Christ in March 2019.

I have a history of embracing the things that I explore in my life full on with passion and intensity.

Yup... I did the same thing after my encounter with Christ. Though my conversion took me by surprise in so many ways, I embraced Him fully, completely, passionately and surrendered everything into His hands.

I'm crazy (in a good way turns out) that way.

Nothing has been the same for me since. Even when things around me are in upheavel or I am dealing with difficulty or uncertainty I have the underlying peace and joy of knowing Christ is with me through it all firmly in my heart.

Philippians 4:6-7 - "...do not be anxious about anything, 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 understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

I don't need to try to make sense of things or figure out what the long term effects are going to be. I have a personal relationship with God the Father and creator of the Universe. I am never alone. There is nothing that I need to do to fix anything. I place everything into God's hands.

For real folks...

Luke 12:22-30 - “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 26 If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! 29 And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. 30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31 Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you."

Things for me now are a far cry from how they were when I was in the New Age movement.

At this point on my journey I cannot even imagine what it would be like to be facing this pandemic without Jesus Christ or to be fielding the concerns of people who are living in fear at this pivotal time - or any time for that matter. Depending on guidance from unseen forces to provide answers to questions for which there are no answers. Bringing through a good word from a dead relative. Looking to 'source' and 'universal' energies. And other stuff like that...

Frankly looking back, it is all so futile. The cycle always begins again, more fear, more need, more things to do, more psychic sessions, more crystals and more seeking for the right answers, the way to happiness and to achieve contentment.

Around and around it goes.

I know for many of you this will not make any sense and it may very well annoy you if you've made it this far and that is OK. I am not trying to twist anyone's arm or come down hard on my readers who are not interested in what a gift it is to walk fully with Christ as a born again Christian.

It would be remiss of me, however, not to let you know how life transforms for those who receive Jesus Christ into their life through God's gift of grace.

Faith in God replaces despair, hope replaces confusion, God's grace and blessings great and small replace endless seeking, striving, doing and trying to be better. There is no need for advice from psychics or mediums, no need for meditations, ritual ceremonies, no need to follow the law of attraction, no need to try to look into a future you cannot control to see what might be ahead.

No need for any of that when you have a direct and personal relationship with the one true omniscient, omnipotent God who created everything and is in sovereign control over all.

You can relax and simply place it all into His hands. Even the Coronavirus.

Because.... God's got this.

Psalm 27:1 - "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?"

When you're a born again Christian you are adopted into God's family. You've got God. A direct line to the sovereign God of the Universe awaits you through Jesus Christ.

John 3:16 - “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."

The world will be forever changed by this COVID-19 pandemic and things at all levels are not going to get any easier. They'll, in fact, get much more difficult.

Nothing going on here on earth is random. God is shaking up the world so that those He is drawing near to him will (hopefully!) wake up and heed the calling of His children home to Him through his Son, Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:28 - "And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose."

My urging to you at this crazy time: Get to know the real Jesus Christ and get to know Him now. 

God bless.

In prayer,

Clare

PS:
If you want to know more about Jesus please feel free reach out to me. It would be my joy to connect with you, show you where and how to start and answer any questions that you might have.

You can email me at clare@claremcnaul.com

Here is Part 1 of this two part blog post series if you'd like to start there.

Whenever I share my born again in Christ testimony I am repeatedly asked two questions:

1. How do you know that you encountered the real Jesus / God?

2. Why did you give up mediumship just because you met Jesus?

I actually love getting these questions because they tell me two very important things about the people asking them:

1. That they know that God exists.

2. That they know that there are false gods.

Both are a very very good thing.

When asked these questions I have no need to become defensive around the fact that I know the one true God. Why?

Because it’s not up to me to prove to anyone who the one true God is.

That is the one true God’s job.

I can simply share the story of how I came to know God.

But first let me say that, though I would love nothing more than for all of you who practice mediumship, do channeling or any other kind of deceptive New Age stuff, for every single one of you to come to know the real Jesus, I am not deluded enough to think that will happen for you by listening to one of my podcasts or by reading one of my blog posts.

New Age deception runs very deep and is very difficult to part with. Mediums, psychics, channelers and other New Agers work long and hard to bring themselves to a place of trusting their experiences with the so-called spirit world etc. so they are not willing to let that all go easily.

New Age deception also includes notions and beliefs fabricated and concocted to confuse us about Jesus Christ, presenting Him as, for example, an “anything goes, cuddly, all loving Christ consciousness” and God our Father as a “non-personal, ill-defined love and light, source energy.”

Or worse yet the deception extends as far as to assert that each of us IS god. That we are divinely perfect beings who create our own realities.

Few New Agers ever really question these notions or try to discern where and who they came from and, instead swallow them hook, line and sinker. Mostly because these beliefs make them ‘feel good’ and fill a need for everything to do with Jesus and God to be all-embracing, all-accepting and all-loving of everyone and everything. If it ‘feels good’ it must be true! Why would I question an image of god that gives me carte blanche to do whatever I want, or suggests that I am, myself a god who can create my own reality, thank you very much.

Believe me I know because I bought into these notions and beliefs without questioning them for years.

It was when I began to question that things changed for me.

Maybe you’re reading this because it is time for you to question the New Age false doctrines and what you assume is the source of your guidance, support and protection. Perhaps it's time for a little discernment?

Personally... I’d love for you to see the truth and be set free. Your afterlife depends on it.

Back to my story….

Though I had been feeling a pull, as to were, from God for a couple of years, it was once I began reading the Bible that an acceleration occurred within me. It was then only a matter of months before I had my born again experience (that is what Christians call it when we come to Christ- being born again in Christ) and with that event came a gift of being able to see through the deceptions perpetuated by the New Age movement.

The Bible is the supernatural word of God. It is the infinite and the eternal distilled down into words. God is talking directly to you from infinity. Why do you think that God’s enemy, Satan does everything he can to influence you away from the Bible? To make you question and deny it’s accuracy and authenticity? To shed doubt at every turn on the truth of the word of God?

Because the Bible aligns you with a truth so profound and so powerful that it cannot be denied.

The Bible is the WORD of God. I know, I’m repeating myself but it bears repeating.

How do we know this?

Because the Bible tells us so. On every page, in every book, chapter and verse we are face to face with the truth of God’s existence.

The Bible is rife with of evidence and confirmation of God’s sovereignty, power, omniscience, faithfulness and love.

In addition to which…

It isn’t only the Bible that is a revelation of God.

God has so clearly revealed himself in nature through his supernatural being made both manifest and visible through the things that are made and that knowledge that God reveals is not just out there objectively for all of us to read or misread but so that that message, implanted in nature gets through so that we all will know, in fact, that God exists.

To put it bluntly there is no excuse.

You already know that God exists. That is not your issue. Your issue around the existence of God is a moral one not an intellectual one.

People don’t want to acknowledge the one true God revealed in the Bible because they don’t like what he has to say. It offends them. Like a teenagers who rebels against their loving father’s good advice for their best interests, they rebel against the true God of the Bible and replace Him with a god or gods that let them have it all their way.

Then then buy into the deception that this small ‘g’ god, (which is known as an idol), is the REAL God.

Oh dear…

The only thing that will cut through this crap is meeting the real Jesus Christ. There is only one way to the one true God the Father and that is through Jesus Christ. “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6

And the only place to meet the real Jesus Christ is the Bible. See a pattern here?

Once you meet Jesus Christ, believe in him, that he died on the cross for your sins and resurrected from the on the third day - just like it tell you to over and over again in the Bible - the veil of deception is lifted from you and you see the New Age for the Satanic garbage that it is. You realize that it is God ONLY that provides, not “the Universe” or “Source” or “the Divine”, or even “You” as god, and that everything the one true God does is for us and our own good, so, therefore, YES, there will be things that we won’t like about that and we’ll feel restrained, like teenagers who want to be able to do anything and everything they damn well please. We’ve been conditioned and deceived into thinking that we have been born into this world to call the shots and do exactly what we like.

Meeting Jesus Christ cuts through that bull-poop and offers you the one and only true awakening.

And there is only one way meet Jesus and that and it is through the Bible.

And your very life, salvation and your afterlife depends on it.

Everything else is nonsense.

Sobering, indeed.

I have no doubt whatsoever that I have met the REAL God. My God is unchanging, eternal, boundless, loving, sovereign, knows the beginning from the end and the end from the beginning. He always was, is and will be. He is the creator of heaven and earth and everything else that you can see. He has written the book that provides me with everything I need to know about Him, here and now at this time. He has shown me the way out of sin, corruption, confusion, despair and deception.

Can your god claim all of that? Can you as ‘god’ do all of that? Would you ever even try to go up against that?

So now to answer this question once and for all: Why did you give up mediumship after meeting Jesus?

Because I came to the one true God through my encounter with his son, Jesus Christ.

And the word of God - which is God himself speaking - tells me not to practice mediumship.

“Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft..”  Deuteronomy 18:10

And for those who prefer their guidance from the New Testament:

“Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife . . . and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:19-21

That’s pretty clear don’t you think? And, yes, mediumship and all things New Age fall into the both the idolatry and sorcery categories.

God is uncompromising. He doesn’t negotiate. What He says goes.

And that is good enough for me.

And because of my confidence that I know the one true God, I have been accused of being arrogant.

Let’s see now… I am submitting myself to the will of my loving God who created me while…

…most of you in the New Age think that YOU are the creator.  

And I’m arrogant?

“You shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3

But here’s the good news: You don’t have to take my word for it. In fact, you should not take my word for it.

You can get to know the one true God all on your own. You don’t need anyone else. No priest, no church, no religion, no intermediary, no teacher is needed.

Pick up the Bible. Crack it open and read.

That is all you need.  

xo Clare

I'll be exploring topics such as Spiritual Warfare and delving deeper into the New Age in upcoming posts so stay tuned. Plus I'll have some interviews coming for you soon!

My last blog post “The Supernatural Experience that Surpasses All” raised a lot of questions for a lot of you and I received many emails.

The questions I have been asked the most are:

“Why have you left mediumship?".

And "Why can’t you follow Jesus and be a medium?”

Both fair questions that I am going to give you part one of the answer to here.

But first...

Many of you told me that you love Jesus. That Jesus is very dear to you. Some of you shared that he’s appeared to you in your dreams and meditations and that you’ve seen him during Reiki treatments and healing sessions.

Some of you said that you pray to Jesus asking for his help, protection and blessing in your mediumship and that you know he provides that for you because you are doing mediumship for good, connecting with the spirit world from the highest and best place of light and love and holding the best intentions to bring healing to others. You are doing your mediumship for God.

You made it clear that this is why you can love Jesus and practice mediumship.

I used to see it that way, too.

That is, until I met Jesus Christ.

The most important question that we all must ask ourselves, when we think we have seen or feel or know Jesus is: Which Jesus?

Why?

Because, contrary to beliefs that continue to gain ever growing popularity amongst psychics and mediums Jesus Christ doesn’t just randomly pop into your meditations, appear in your dreams to give you a message or show up during healing or Reiki sessions.

And he doesn’t protect you while you are doing mediumship.

Whoever does that is not the real Jesus.

The Jesus that does that is either a Jesus that you assume exists or have drawn your own conclusions about, (because you haven’t taken steps to find out who he really is - more about this in a moment) or a false version that you have learned about through a new age (or some other kind of) teacher, or have possibly seen depicted in a movie or read about in a book, like 'A Course in Miracles’ or books written about ‘Jesus' by Deepak Chopra, for example.

You’ve got to get your Jesus’s straight.

Unfortunately the new age and new thought movements persistently push and perpetuate a false Jesus. Rather than pointing us towards the Bible for the answers about Jesus, these movements lead us away from the Bible and, instead, attempt to mislead us by trying to get us to believe in a false Jesus.

The only place you can find out who the real Jesus Christ is, is in the Bible.

In order to know Jesus Christ you need to know who He really is.

Again, contrary to popular beliefs he is not a good person or an enlightened ascended master who did good deeds and tried to teach us by his example. He's is not a 'cuddly, anything goes’ kind of guy who wants everyone to go to heaven. He is not a love and light energy. And he is definitely not the ever popular hip, cool, updated, new age, new thought notion of a 'Christ consciousness'.

And… he is not so full of love for you that he wants you to take any path you darn well please to God.

Nope. That is not Jesus.

Now, by all means, if you so choose, follow that false Jesus. But please be honest with yourself. Don’t operate under the deception that he IS Jesus Christ.

Because that false Jesus is the exact opposite of the real Jesus.

Jesus Christ himself says:

“Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many" (Matthew 24:4-5)

and...

“Jesus said to them ‘Watch out that no one deceives you. Many will come in my name, claiming. ‘I am he’ and will deceive many.” Mark 13:5-6

Could he have put it in simpler terms?

Ok, so once you are clear who Jesus Christ is NOT you can decide if you’d like to know who he actually IS.

And whether you want to take the gift that he offers.

One day last summer I hit a wall. Like never before I wanted to get to the bottom of some things that had been on my mind and heart. I was deeply questioning the practice of mediumship. I wanted to know if and how God fit into it. Tired of the plethora of ways that Jesus Christ was being presented by new age teachers I wanted to know who Jesus really was.

Plus these notions that God is some sort of ‘divine' impersonal 'universal source light energy’ and Jesus just some awakened dude that came here to set an example for us were, frankly, wearing a little thin. I, myself, had been believing those things and pushing them on others for years. I found myself seriously questioning these notions.

So I turned to the one book that is written all about Jesus Christ. The Bible.

And it was within those pages that I discovered who Jesus really is.

From start to finish the entire point of the Bible is to reveal Jesus Christ to us. And make God known to us through Jesus.

And the awesome supernatural thing about it is that the Bible is God speaking to us. Right now. As we read it. In present time.

I also discovered that...

God doesn’t walk on eggshells or pussy foot around. He gets boldly and directly to the point. He isn’t terribly concerned about hurting our feelings. But he does want to get our attention.

He certainly got mine.

The bible is a tough read.

It’s controversial.

There are truth bombs on every page.

The Bible opens our eyes to evil, sin, salvation, heaven, hell. It puts right before our eyes things that we’d rather NOT know. Or think about, thank you very much.

It talks about the things we ALL deeply dislike to look at and quite naturally rebel against. Things we just don’t want to hear anything about.

Plus it’s offensive.

It offends because it reveals how deeply sinful we ALL are - every single one of us - and that we can do absolutely nothing about that.

It lays out what the relationship with God was always meant to be: us walking with him in an intimate relationship. It shows us where and how that was totally screwed up, how that has affected us, how God has done nothing but try to get us to turn back to walking intimately with him and how we do nothing but constantly turn the other way because… sin.

Sin that we can do nothing to remedy or fix.

We can’t fix it by doing good things or by trying to be better people.

We can’t fix it by seeking counseling or therapy or by trying to solve other people’s problems.

We can’t fix it by taking drugs or drinking alcohol.

We can’t fix it by trying to escape it or ignore it.

We can’t fix it through self-empowerment, or by moving from technique to technique, teacher to teacher or guru to guru.

We can’t fix it with money, manifestation or mantras.

We can’t fix it by trying to attain spiritual highs and insights through meditation or by ingesting plants like ayahuasca or peyote.

We can’t fix it by casting oracles or trying to tell the future.

We can’t fix it by owning lots of things or through governmental legislation or by going to war with other countries.

We can’t fix it by listening to spirit guides or bringing messages through from our dead relatives.

We can’t fix it by doing anything.

Our ‘doing' is actually a symptom of our sin. Our doing continually turns us away from the one and only solution.

Every time we try to take life into our own hands and solve our own problems, or someone else’s, or turn to someone else for solutions to our own problems, we fly in the face of God.

God knows this. And he loves us so much he actually offers us the only solution to all our problems and challenges in life.

His Son Jesus Christ.

Who, by dying for us on the cross took care of that sin thing.

The only thing we need to do is accept what God has offered and ask Jesus Christ to be our savior.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened”  Matthew 7:7

Notice how that last verse quoted says ‘everyone’. Not some, or special people. EVERYONE.

So… I did exactly that. I knocked on that door. I asked.

(If you need a recap or haven’t already heard or read about my Jesus experience you can do that here.)

The door opened. Jesus Christ stepped through.

I met Him. I experienced his power, tender mercy, grace and love first hand.

I felt the weight of sin lifted from me and replaced by joy and peace.

I felt Jesus enter into my heart.

And surrendering to him was a choice-less choice.

No new age Jesus, A Course in Miracles Jesus, Deepak Chopra version of Jesus or any other Jesus can do that. Nor can the Jesus that appears to you in meditations or healing sessions.

Salvation is something that comes only by asking the RIGHT Jesus - the one you meet in the Bible - to be your savior and to come into your life.

Once you surrender your life to Jesus you do not need to turn anywhere else for guidance. And furthermore, you won’t WANT TO turn anywhere else.

This all becomes glaringly obvious in that “how did I miss THAT’ kind of way. As do many other things that you’ve spent your life trying to fix and solve or avoid and push under the carpet.

“Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and He will do it.” Psalm 37:4-5

I point out a key word in that verse: Commit.

Having experienced what I’ve experienced and knowing what I now know, first hand, about the only place where true loving guidance, peace, grace, comfort, forgiveness and healing lies, why on earth would I continue to lead people down the wrong path with mediumship?

Walking with God is an intimate relationship. God made you in his image, to reflect his glory. You reflect his glory when you obey him.

You obey him by seeking all that you need in life from him and him alone. You obey him by using the gifts that he bestowed upon you for his glory alone.

Turning anywhere else for guidance or wisdom or using your gifts in ways that are not OK with God means that you are literally turning away from God. It is an all or nothing proposition. Be all in with God and he is all in with you and will bless you beyond measure. Turn away and you can expect the same from God.

Practicing mediumship is turning away from God and seeking and trying to pass on to others comfort, guidance and wisdom from ‘spirits’  and ‘spirit guides’ which are sources other than God. This is one of the reasons why God does not bless mediumship or those who practice mediumship.

Contrary to what many mediums vehemently believe and forcefully assert Mediumship is not a gift from God. The gift that it takes to do mediumship is a gift from God, however, using that gift for the purpose of Mediumship is hijacking it and using it in a way that God absolutely does not want you to use it. You’re effectively saying “Thanks but I’m going to do what I want with what you gave me. I don’t give a fig what you want."

There are other reasons, too, why God does not want you to use your gifts to do mediumship and I have much much more to say about this in blog post part two.
 
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5

"How happy is the man who has put his trust in the Lord and has not turned to the proud or to those who run after lies!”  Psalms 40:4

“When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?" Isaiah 8:19

This, my friends, is why I have given up mediumship.

Part #2 coming soon

xo Clare