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As regular readers know, I have been “dating” a beautiful Zambian lady since March 5. We found each other on a dating site, we hit it off instantly, we fell in love, and we started making plans. We have been trying to find a way to get together in person. I didn’t have a valid passport when we got started, and getting foreigners into the US is hard with the coronavirus hysteria. I applied for a passport, and I was told to expect a wait of between 8 to 12 weeks, even with expedited processing.

Last night, I learned that my application was approved. My new passport will be here roughly 5 weeks after I applied. God willing, barring unforeseen obstacles, I should be free to travel in a few days.

Now, where should I go?

As always, I call my girlfriend “Rebecca” here because she hasn’t told me to use her real name. Rebecca suggested getting together in Israel. I thought this would be perfect. Travel between my location and Zambia takes a day and a half, with no hotel stops. It is something to be avoided. Israel is reasonably close for both of us, and it’s not expensive.

I learned that Israel was not accepting visitors, and Rebecca suggested Dubai. It’s a popular tourist destination, the cost is not bad, it’s open for business, and the location is practical.

I have to go back over the options now. Israel appears to be changing its policies, but the government websites are rudimentary, slow, and inconsistent with each other, so I don’t actually know what the current rules are. I suppose I could call the embassy today.

If things go well wherever we end up, we can make things official during the trip, and then I can find out how to get a fiancee visa from the State Department.

I was concerned that my passport might not get her until mid-May, complicating our plans. I’m very glad it moved faster.

What happened is very typical of Christians’ interactions with earthly authorities. A government says no, you pray, and then the government says yes. Satan has a lot of power in governments. He likes to use them to put up strongholds. No prayer in schools. No church during a pandemic. God has no respect for his strongholds. They might as well be made of fog.

Things are going very well between us. We have had problems with her school obligations interfering with our prayer sessions, but that will come to an end soon enough.

We are working on the process of crucifying the flesh and driving out demons. We both felt motivated to do it at the same time. Derek Prince said many people try to crucify demons and cast out the flesh, meaning they mistake one for the other. Sometimes we have compulsions and failings that come from the flesh instead of foreign spirits, and we have to use the right tools to win. We’re using prayer and fasting in order to overcome. One thing we’re hoping to beat is coronavirus fat. Rebecca looks great, but she wants to look better.

I keep getting new revelations and impartations. I’m happy about that. I suddenly have the ability to quiet my mind by pushing foreign spirits out. I was having some problems with worry, but now I am able to silence it. I know it doesn’t come from me.

The word says completed love casts out fear, and I take it seriously. I fight fear and unbelief, and I work to release love. The ability to silence worry appears to be connected to fear and anger.

Yesterday, I made a big mistake. I felt sorry for myself because I ate something that didn’t agree with me, so I sat in the living room and watched the last Jurassic Park movie. I don’t have to tell you the plot, but I will. People try to profit from fake dinosaurs made through cloning, the dinosaurs get loose, and lots of people die. Startling; I know. You can’t believe a Jurassic Park movie would go like that.

Sometimes I think Ridley Scott should sue Steven Spielberg.

I avoid entertainment featuring vengefulness and cruelty, but the movie I watched yesterday got by me. When you watch, say, Steven Seagal, you know you’re going to see cruel vengeance, but it’s not exactly what you think of when you think of dinosaur movies. Nonetheless, I saw it. A mean old white military-looking guy got his arm bitten off, and then he was eaten by a new kind of dinosaur created to please the evil military/industrial complex. The arts are what destroyed America, but we blame the army and General Foods.

There was a fair amount of cruelty in the movie, and there was also a lot of fear. After I watched it, I marveled at my lack of common sense. Here I was, asking God to keep fear out of me, yet I was also watching a movie what was designed to instill fear. It seems ridiculous when you look at it that way. Why would you want to scare yourself or watch other people put in fear when you’re trying to get fear out of your system?

It was a bad idea, to say the least.

Now I’m going to be more careful. No more movies or TV shows involving fear.

Last night, I thought about the way American movies had changed. Before I was born, movies didn’t show extreme physical injury or suffering. If someone got run over by a train or eaten by a bear, the camera turned to something else. In the Sixties, things got more graphic. During the next decade, they got more disgusting. Andy Warhol made a movie in which a man was decapitated and a woman was disemboweled. Eventually, extreme representations of gore and agony became commonplace, and in many movies, these things are presented approvingly, in order to satisfy us, not to scare us. Hollywood has taught us to savor horrific cruelty. It even turned Hannibal Lecter into a sort of hero. That’s weird.

It’s like we want to see what happens in hell.

This all comes as a big revelation to me. I seem to have slept through the change.

If you watch pornography, you give power to sexual demons and invite them to live in you. What, then, are you doing when you watch movies about violence, cruelty, and fear?

I was fighting God, and I didn’t know it.

I’m all done with that mess. I am hoping God will honor my change of course and help me get clear of the bad things I’ve packed inside myself.

Maybe you’re fighting God without realizing it. I hope this blog post will help you.