Joan Boney ... apostle/prophets
Before we were born again, many of us unthinkingly observed superstitions and various pagan acts, such as wearing items of clothing for "luck", or clicking drink glasses together for "luck".
Some cross themselves today thinking it will bring them "luck".
I see people doing hand signals for "luck" at football games.
Single women at weddings try to catch the bridal bouquet for "luck".
Ungodly people give "toasts" at events thinking their words to have special powers.
Some think the number 13 to be bad "luck". Others eat black-eyed peas on New Year's Day for "luck".
Some go to graveyards and decorate graves.
All these things are pagan superstitions practiced by worldly people and some of us observed superstitions before we were Christians.
(My all time favorite superstition event is the following: On TV a few years ago I saw fans and a college baseball team who wore bananas on their heads for "luck". I guess if the team lost, they would have the benefit of being able to eat the bananas. The team in this case did lose the game at the College World Series! Maybe the fans were too upset to notice the bananas they were wearing.)
We must not do such things as superstitions after we are born again, for our faith and hope and "luck" is appointed by God in this life and does not come by man. And we want to show God to be in charge of us, which HE is.
Paul even tells us that they who practice "witchcraft" will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft (practicing and observing superstitions), hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
As Christians we should not be living as the world lives.
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