Yesterday my wife sat down to have coffee and to start her day off she checked her e-mail and she read the very same piece of hate mail that had been sent to me. She’d been copied on the vicious e-mail that detailed what a bad person that I am. I don’t know how this supposed “Christian” got her and my sons and daughters-in-law’s e-mail addresses, but he did and of course copied them all.
After I got dressed my wife informed me she was not feeling good and was dizzy. She checked her blood pressure and it was high. I told her to call the doctor and get it checked out and I would be back in a little while.
I departed my house to attend a meeting across the street and right in the middle of it my phone began ringing. I denied the call but they would call right back again and again. As it vibrated like crazy I noticed it was my son. Finally I answered and growled at him for calling me so often and told him I was in the middle of a meeting. He blurted out, “Mom needs to go to the emergency room”. I immediately ran out of the meeting and called 911 and they sent an ambulance.
I followed the ambulance and by the time we got to the hospital her blood pressure was 216/176, (stroke level). They gave her various medications and it gradually began to come down. She had an EKG, CAT scan, and X rays to determine if she had a stroke, congestive heart failure, or other problems, but praise God all was well.
So what caused the high blood pressure? The doctor said it was likely due to stress. She had an incredibly bad day just prior to yesterday dealing with all sorts of problems, (not the least of which was a problematic employee that seemed to get her training on how to tell lies directly from satan). Of course my wife has been right by my side as I’ve experienced satanic attack after attack for the past couple of months and I suppose it all finally expressed itself in her being very sick yesterday.
When I founded the Worldwide Ministry and had the vision to unite Christians and try to renew faith in God and restore Christian values to America and all over the world I knew that I would be singled out for intense satanic attack. The other leaders that I’ve recruited felt likewise and we have talked about it at length and expressed the need for a team of intercessory prayer warriors. Satan obviously doesn’t want us to succeed and we need prayer and lots of it to do battle with him.
As I waited hour after hour at the hospital I read the tons of letters and texts from Words for the Day subscribers encouraging me to stay strong and letting me know that they were praying for me. It cheered me up substantially and later that afternoon the hospital finally allowed my wife to go home which was also good.
As we talked on the way home I asked her to take a vacation with her sister and go see some of the grandkids. I don’t mind suffering for the Lord, but felt REALLY bad that my family was now being attacked.
Some people don’t believe in satanic attack and look at me like I’m some kind of Charismatic nut. If you fall into that category, read your Bible. Eph. 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Now either the Bible is true or it is a lie. (It is true and please for your sake don’t deny it . . . )
One of the e-mails I received yesterday was from one of the wives of another leader of the Renewal of America movement. She’d received a letter from an attendee of our recent event. It said in part: “I have been praying all day since I heard of the news about Teresa. I received a call from Vivian and she said: ‘beware of the evil one’ that the wives will experience health issues; (interesting!) I cannot believe she said it over the weekend as a warning to us. And then you rush Teresa to the hospital”.
I got home late and texted another of the founders and asked if he had time and wanted to review the business plan for the ministry. He texted back, “Cant – Under attack – Please pray.”
I spoke with another leader and he told me he was under attack with some relationships.
Egad! This is all out war!
So I’m sitting there all glum and questioning what kind of husband and father I am. Instead of protecting my family, I’m subjecting them to all kinds of danger. Maybe I should just quit writing Words for the Day, speaking, writing books, and let someone else lead the Worldwide Ministry effort???? Maybe instead of leading a church, I should just quietly attend like so many others. I’m 67 years old, why not just retire and enjoy life and keep my head low???
At that precise moment my phone rang.
A lady was on the line and I could barely understand her because she was slurring her words so badly. I asked her to speak a little louder and more clearly and she told me she had Cerebral Palsy. She told me that she’d been a Christian all of her life, but had slowly begun to lose all hope. She was homeless and addicted to prescription meds, (Xanax) and had tried to commit suicide 8 times and very nearly succeeded her last time, taking 98 Xanax pills.
It was very difficult to understand her slurred words and also because she was sobbing uncontrollably. She told me she had just finished reading my book and it had saved her life. She was bawling as she told me how she agonized with me when she read how I’d described being in a coma from the car wreck and having a vision of watching my entire horrible life flash before me and then being thrust into hell.
She thanked me again and again for writing the book and told me at least five times that it saved her life. By now a steady stream of tears were flowing down my face and I too was sobbing uncontrollably. I managed to pull it together and encourage her and I promised that I would come visit her in Tallahassee at the very first opportunity. She was thrilled to death and then she very tenderly told me she loved me.
At the very moment that I was at my lowest point in years and contemplating just throwing in the towel, God let me know that I should not get discouraged or dissuaded from my mission, that I’m doing important work for Him. As I thought of this poor homeless lady with Cerebral Palsy hooked on one of the most addictive substances in society my heart goes out to her. But praise God that she now knows that her situation is not hopeless. The obvious lesson she learned was that if God saved me from all of the filthy sin and murderous evil that I lived, He can and most definitely will save her too!
Sometimes when we think we’re all alone we just need our eyes opened whereby we can see God’s vast army of angels that are protecting us. This happened with Elisha’s servant who was wavering until God opened his eyes and allowed him to see the vast army of angels that God had amassed to protect them.
It is human to get discouraged and it is one of satan’s most powerful weapons, but we must always remember that He is with us ALWAYS!
Though I don’t have time to answer them all, I appreciate all of the letters of encouragement that you guys sent yesterday more than you can possibly know. One friend wrote and said that she and her husband, (who is a Senator) have a saying that they use when he gets criticized for some of the political stands that he takes, “The dogs may be barking but this train’s movin on!”
I like that!
All aboard!
2 Kings 6:16
So he answered, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” Then Elisha prayed and said, “O LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the servant’s eyes and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, “Strike this people with blindness, I pray.” So He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha . . .
April 3, 2014 – Click here to listen