| The title has been specifically selected for shock | | | | Still no answer. Then in my silent pouting and anger I |
| value. I felt the title best described the feeling of | | | | slipped on some water from the air-conditioning unit |
| abandonment many people talk about just before | | | | in the newsroom. Silent conversation: "I can't even |
| near-death breakthroughs-situations whereby one | | | | get mad with you in my mind now?" O.K I am |
| second later would have spelled sure death, or | | | | sorry--no lightning bolts, please! |
| worse. What about those who either gave up just | | | | I 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 energy | | | | people through those periods and now I was in a |
| incubators. However, as soon as you go deeper into | | | | similar situation. I knew I was becoming impatient |
| opining that we are capable of incubating, not only | | | | because a pastor called me and asked me for |
| positive and /or negative energies, but "generational | | | | prayers. 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 imply | | | | A few moments later, I discovered that the pastor's |
| that somehow we all lived perfect lives in the sight | | | | first marriage was dissolved-whatever that means, |
| of God up to the moment of death. I have yet to | | | | and 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 the | | | | Then to make bad matters worse, God revealed to |
| last minute. Are we to assume that churches are | | | | me the cause of the break-up and He was not |
| doing such a wonderful job that everyone gets | | | | pleased with that. "Aha, you answer me for people's |
| rescued at the doors of death? Then why should | | | | problems 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 spiritual | | | | would have held second or third intercessionary |
| energies that peruse the spiritual world. I always list | | | | prayer session over the matter; instead I put the |
| the categories. For people who do not have the "Gift | | | | situation, minus the name on a prayer list and sent it |
| of Discernment," the ability to discern spiritual | | | | out. That was the Friday. The situation had to be |
| matters, that period of intense despair when little | | | | reconciled 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 the | | | | heard: "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 your | | | | Natural question: what is happening with my case? As |
| mortgage, before the rope snaps-can be pretty | | | | I was in the dregs of the barrel of despair, I took a |
| harrowing. Many will tell you that 10 seconds more | | | | lonely 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 privately | | | | showing me this herbal plant. Not only does it reduce |
| that the reason God does not come to rescue some | | | | swelling, eliminate wasteful buildup so that even the |
| people in desperate situations might be because of | | | | odor of the acidic urine disappears, but it creates |
| sin, suddenly adjust their tunes when they find | | | | some positive upside effects. I meet with my doctor |
| themselves in the same predicament. I will plead guilty | | | | tomorrow. I will allow him to get in touch with his |
| to having done that before my "Damascus Encounter | | | | contemporaries to conduct clinical trials. |
| in Israel." I remember the secret frustration I felt | | | | What if I had given up? I believe that many times |
| when God was allowing me to pray for people I | | | | God provides means of escape or whispers words |
| never knew before. He would be healing them of | | | | such as "You are going through this large wilderness |
| cancer, AIDS, blindness, sickle cell anemia, etc., and I | | | | because I have a giant Promised Land for you." |
| would ask him to ease a pain I was feeling in my | | | | Sometimes 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 he | | | | Course or Stop," before it is too late. Sometimes we |
| was applying to me and why? His first reply was | | | | are not yet prepared for some of the promised |
| reassuring--only temporarily: "That area is where you | | | | lands. The same way rain falls on the just and the |
| have transgressed in the past" and he needed to | | | | unjust, tragedy falls on both sides; however, if we |
| keep a little reminder to warn me what would | | | | are in that place of promise, He will honor specific |
| happen if I only succumbed to the lustful temptations | | | | promises 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 my | | | | For a complete list of prayers dealing with removing |
| body waste began to develop a strong and | | | | spiritual 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--Nothing | | | | families and nations to renew covenant contracts for |
| major? "Dear God, please remove this odor and pain | | | | generations, refer to "The Golden Fleece Found" |
| from me." No reply. | | | | mentioned below. |
| YOOO ALL OF A SUDDEN I SERVE A DEAF GOD? | | | | |