Does God Allow Us To See The Gates Of Hell To Frighten Us, Or To Promote Us?

The title has been specifically selected for shockStill no answer. Then in my silent pouting and anger I
value. I felt the title best described the feeling ofslipped on some water from the air-conditioning unit
abandonment many people talk about just beforein the newsroom. Silent conversation: "I can't even
near-death breakthroughs-situations whereby oneget mad with you in my mind now?" O.K I am
second later would have spelled sure death, orsorry--no lightning bolts, please!
worse. What about those who either gave up justI went through the same hide and seek period that
before, or did not get the rescue line in time?people call me about weekly. I watched God take
People do not disagree that human beings are energypeople through those periods and now I was in a
incubators. However, as soon as you go deeper intosimilar situation. I knew I was becoming impatient
opining that we are capable of incubating, not onlybecause a pastor called me and asked me for
positive and /or negative energies, but "generationalprayers. The caller I.D reported a different number.
energies," the opinions wobble. To that very issue I"Where are you calling from?"
get angry with pastors who use funerals to implyA few moments later, I discovered that the pastor's
that somehow we all lived perfect lives in the sightfirst marriage was dissolved-whatever that means,
of God up to the moment of death. I have yet toand to tell you the truth, even though I prayed for
go to a funeral where the person who died was bad.the situation, it was not my normal intense prayers.
Somehow he/she supposedly made it right at theThen to make bad matters worse, God revealed to
last minute. Are we to assume that churches areme the cause of the break-up and He was not
doing such a wonderful job that everyone getspleased with that. "Aha, you answer me for people's
rescued at the doors of death? Then why shouldproblems and you turn your back on me for mine?"
anyone go to church anyway?Normally, had I not had a preview of the situation, I
I teach, write about and lecture on types of spiritualwould have held second or third intercessionary
energies that peruse the spiritual world. I always listprayer session over the matter; instead I put the
the categories. For people who do not have the "Giftsituation, minus the name on a prayer list and sent it
of Discernment," the ability to discern spiritualout. That was the Friday. The situation had to be
matters, that period of intense despair when littlereconciled by Monday morning. Monday morning I got
voices try to persuade you to give up---those lonely,a call thanking God for all that He had done. Silently I
desperate and depressing moments just before theheard: "It is not by might, or by power, but by my
bridge collapses, before the flames engulf you,spirit-" Zechariah 4:6.
before the earth caves in, before you rescue yourNatural question: what is happening with my case? As
mortgage, before the rope snaps-can be prettyI was in the dregs of the barrel of despair, I took a
harrowing. Many will tell you that 10 seconds morelonely stroll to the brow of a hill. There I found an
and the outcome would have been fatal.herb I saw in a vision. Previously He had been
God-loving people who previously believed privatelyshowing me this herbal plant. Not only does it reduce
that the reason God does not come to rescue someswelling, eliminate wasteful buildup so that even the
people in desperate situations might be because ofodor of the acidic urine disappears, but it creates
sin, suddenly adjust their tunes when they findsome positive upside effects. I meet with my doctor
themselves in the same predicament. I will plead guiltytomorrow. I will allow him to get in touch with his
to having done that before my "Damascus Encountercontemporaries to conduct clinical trials.
in Israel." I remember the secret frustration I feltWhat if I had given up? I believe that many times
when God was allowing me to pray for people IGod provides means of escape or whispers words
never knew before. He would be healing them ofsuch as "You are going through this large wilderness
cancer, AIDS, blindness, sickle cell anemia, etc., and Ibecause I have a giant Promised Land for you."
would ask him to ease a pain I was feeling in mySometimes by listening to evil spirits' radio
prostrate area and for months he did not answer me.frequencies, we do not hear the words "Change
Yes I did get angry and ask him what punishment heCourse or Stop," before it is too late. Sometimes we
was applying to me and why? His first reply wasare not yet prepared for some of the promised
reassuring--only temporarily: "That area is where youlands. The same way rain falls on the just and the
have transgressed in the past" and he needed tounjust, tragedy falls on both sides; however, if we
keep a little reminder to warn me what wouldare in that place of promise, He will honor specific
happen if I only succumbed to the lustful temptationspromises that He made to you and your families.
that the enemy was sending me daily." Matthew 12:Your spiritual bank balances certainly help in those
43 and 2nd Peter 2: 20 affirm such.situations.
I have been health-conscious for years. When myFor a complete list of prayers dealing with removing
body waste began to develop a strong andspiritual leaven from families, nations and institutions,
unhealthy odor I began to panic. Quick doctor test:and the cleansing prayers that enable persons,
slight swelling and a nagging occasional pain--Nothingfamilies and nations to renew covenant contracts for
major? "Dear God, please remove this odor and paingenerations, refer to "The Golden Fleece Found"
from me." No reply.mentioned below.
YOOO ALL OF A SUDDEN I SERVE A DEAF GOD?