RE: [TruthTalk] Authority over nature: Guyana

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Michael, I agree completely with your point of view.  I believe that we should do spiritual warfare, as well as use all the power we are given as citizens of our governments to do God’s will within our realm of authority.  However I think the story of God’s protection over those Christians saved from the tsunami shows that whenever we are allowed no freedom by our gov’t that He can and will act on our behalf to show that He has the Ultimate Authority.  (That would be on behalf of righteous Believers; not your average wishy-washy folk.) Your story reminds me of the prancing homo-weirdo we used to have strutting his stuff here in St. Louis.  I don’t know of anyone else who was praying against him, but I rebuked satan and asked the Lord to remove his depravity each time I saw him on the streets, and within a few months he was gone.  I’m only sorry it took me so long to think of doing that.  Izzy    From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of michael douglas Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:10 PM To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Authority over nature: Guyana   Michael D: Very interesting indeed, Izzy. As you said,if true, what a testimony of divine providence...  Thank God for His mercy.   Interesting to read your statement about our not having rights, here. While that may be true, sometimes we hae to resist the bully (enemy) from throwing us off course, or trying to overthrow the will of god in our lives and even in our communities. I'll give an example: Many years ago, after returning home to TnT from Tampa, I found myself confronted with a situation which I found very undesirable. In our community, one of my close neighbours had begun hosting a Carnival parade on our street while I was in the U.S. Now Carnival here is somewhat like Mardi Gras, and seen as very undesirable by most Christians. Well, I decided I needed to stop it. I therefore used the believers authority of what I allow is allowed and what I forbid is forbidden, and the practice was discontinued. Of course, up to today, no one but I (and now TTers) would know why the activities ceased. One thing you know I hold strongly is that we believers have the right to determine what kinds of things prevail in our 'garden'. I want to be able to press further and further into that realm and to encourage others to do the same. This is by no means to diminish what God did for those Christians, or any one else. I remember meeting with a group of pastors (invited to attend by David Miller). They were very concerned about the Gasparilla parade commerating the pirates etc that coloured the history or the area. I tried telling them that they have the authority in Christ to come against that celebration, but they seemed unable to relate to it from that point of view, yet they bemoaned the advent of the activities. We have a similar problem in TnT. Believers deplore the carnival celebrations, but don't seem able to come together in one accord and demand that the mountain be removed. I pray that we all really get it in the Body of Christ.   P.S. I just found out today that the Prime Minister of Grenada was due -last week- to visit the apostle in the U.S. (Baltimore) whom God has been using to call the nation to repentance. I understand that there was alot of pre-visit security checks etc. This is very interesting indeed. God must have have gotten something through to the PM of Grenada through the Ivan disaster. I'll keep you folks up-to-date as I get more info.