Full Refund if You’re not Satisfied

My wife and I finally made a move that should have been obvious. I posted a video offering people free prayer.

The pandemic has had people glued in place. There is less face-to-face interaction than there used to be. Travel is also hard. My wife is not here, we can only get together a few times per year, and I don’t see other people often. The other day it occurred to me that we could still do something for the kingdom of heaven. By posting the video, I made it possible for us to be helpful even when we’re apart and unable to be with others.

The basic pitch is this: tell us what you want us to pray about, and we will do it. Obviously, we will not pray for stupid things. We will not pray your ex-wife gets eaten by a shark. We will not pray God helps you beat the casinos. But we are available to people who have problems like addiction, poverty, mental illness, diseases, and so on. The catch is that we will also pray for them to become Holy-Spirit-filled Christians.

Having put the video up, I had a surprising thought. I realized I had never seen another channel offering prayer.

I know of one guy–Mark Hemans–who holds Zoom meetings and posts the video on Youtube. I don’t know of anyone who does what we’re doing.

I’ve seen tons of Christians trying to sell books. I’ve seen them beg for money for their weird projects. I’ve seen people like Kat Kerr and Johnny Enlow, delivering ludicrous fake prophecies in order to avoid honest work. I’ve seen people who were very concerned about the apocalypse and who wanted to share their revelations and dreams. Of course, I’ve seen the TBN crowd, slandering the Holy Spirit by pretending God rewards the poor for sending them their mortgage payments and electricity money. I just haven’t seen financially disinterested Christians offering to pray.

There must be some out there. I should look for them. It’s so obvious; shouldn’t everyone be doing it?

I made it clear we will not accept money or anything else from people. We have no plans to start living off the gospel.

Prior to posting the video, I had felt stagnant. We interceded for people, but we found ourselves praying for the same individuals over and over, and most of them didn’t seem to benefit. I believe people’s problems always stem from their relationships with God, and most people don’t want to change. They want healing, money, and so on, but they don’t want to give themselves to God, admit fault, or turn over new leaves. Their attitudes limit their results.

My hope is that by using Youtube, we will encounter new people who are better prospects.

At least we’ll be doing something other than thinking about ourselves and our plans. That will be nice.

We are still working on travel plans. I believe Omicron will be nearly gone from most of the world by February 1. If it weren’t for that, I’d be in a hurry. It seems like a bad idea to travel until the peak has passed. I’m not afraid of Omicron, because it’s about like a cold, but who wants a cold? Rhodah and I went to Egypt and Turkey, and I got sick both times. That’s plenty.

I expect coronavirus to become a minor issue before spring. Whether that will last, I can’t guess. Maybe a really serious and highly contagious variant will emerge later in the year, and Omicron won’t give us much resistance to it. I think we are very likely to have several months of relief in 2022, either way.

Of course, I am concerned because travel will become unpleasant if restrictions drop and people storm the airports. In Egypt and Turkey, we didn’t have to deal with crowds. We got to fly on planes that weren’t very full. What if we get approved to go to Switzerland or some other dream destination just as jets start filling to the ceiling?

Rhodah had a dream last night. She was at our house, and she was hanging laundry out to dry. A man she was in a toxic relationship parked his car outside the gate and started questioning her about our marriage. He was not happy about it. She told him she really loved me, and she also told him to get lost.

We feel he represents the supernatural influence of spirits that work in Zambia. They don’t want her to leave. On the one hand, Zambia is a Christian nation, unlike the United States, but on the other, there is a great deal of witchcraft there, and cursing other people is a very popular pastime. I doubt the spirits that killed Rhodah’s parents and kept her single are happy about her departure.

She thinks things must be going well with her green card application. She thinks spirits know it’s about to be approved, so they are attacking in order to sow doubt.

If Rhodah gets her visa soon, we can forget about traveling three or four times a year. Our next non-American destination should be our last for quite some time.

The earliest we can expect a green card is the beginning of next month. If that doesn’t happen, it could be as late as June. Either way, I don’t think we’ll need to travel again more than twice.

Of course, Rhodah wants to travel after we’re together. Last year was pretty exciting for her. I don’t know if she has prepared for the possibility that our globetrotting ways might change soon.

A Youtuber I follow posts videos featuring prophecies. Sometimes he talks about other things. He just spoke about a woman he knows. She’s a big prayer warrior. He says her life doesn’t go well. She has suffered a lot.

He says God manifested himself to her recently and asked her whether she wanted to stay here and complete the job she was called to do or leave. She said she couldn’t answer the question. Her heart started fluttering as though she were having an attack. She felt peace come over her, and she fell asleep.

She believes God knew she was about to have a heart attack, so he came to her. It’s not clear, but it seems she thinks he got her through it.

She says her impression is that her future work involves a time of tremendous suffering for the world. She mentioned something from Revelation 6. In that book, when the sixth seal opens, people call on rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from the anger of Jesus.

This got me thinking. I believe in a pre-tribulation rapture. All the evidence seems to point to it. Noah’s family was lifted off the earth before the flood. Lot’s family was saved from Sodom before it was destroyed. The Hebrews walked out of the Red Sea before it closed up on the Egyptians. Jesus told the church of Philadelphia it would be spared the hour of temptation that would come upon the entire world, and he was clearly speaking about the future.

If the rapture comes before the tribulation, why would this lady foresee working for God during a worldwide catastrophe predicted in Revelation 6? Shouldn’t she be gone by then?

When I read the Revelation, it appears there are two parts to the final set of miseries that will hit the earth. The first part takes place after the sixth seal is opened. The Bible says people will be terrified, but it doesn’t say there will be global destruction and death.

After the sixth seal is opened, God will seal 144,000 sons of Israel in their foreheads so they will not be harmed. Then a huge number of people appear before God in white robes. They must be in heaven, because they are assembled around his throne. I don’t see any indication the 144,000 will be in heaven at this time.

The people in the great assembly before God are said to have come out of great tribulation, but is it THE tribulation? Every Christian who is serious experiences persecution on Earth. Perhaps these people are the raptured. Perhaps they have been persecuted, but they haven’t experienced the tribulation which destroys the world. After all, the ruin of the world doesn’t take place until the seventh seal is opened.

I’m inclined to think there will be great fear on Earth before the tribulation. This may be what the lady who had the visitation foresaw.

Or maybe she could be wrong about the whole thing.

When I listened to the video, I didn’t understand why someone who was described as close to God would suffer so much on Earth. I have found that if I pray in tongues enough and try to be honest with God, things go pretty smoothly. I have challenges, but they don’t overcome me. Shouldn’t things that work for me work for others?

Of course, maybe she’s not praying in tongues.

The Bible is full of promises of peace and victory, so it’s hard for me to believe a Christian who is doing things well can have a difficult life. Paul suffered a lot, but then he was also a proud and angry man. Maybe he caused himself unnecessary problems. He went to Jerusalem after a prophet warned him he would be imprisoned if he did, uttering what seemed like a proud remark about his dedication to God. He also appealed to the Romans to save him when he got in trouble instead of going to God.

Paul was not perfect.

I have noticed that people who claim to have spoken with Jesus face to face don’t always get their problems solved, and they don’t come away with all the answers. It seems that Jesus doesn’t automatically make up for the gaps in your knowledge just because he visits you or you visit heaven. Teaching people is the job of the Holy Spirit, and we are supposed to access his knowledge through things like prayer in tongues and prophecy.

A pilot named Dale Black says he died in a plane crash and visited heaven. He has a ministry now. He talks with great confidence about many things, but I wonder if he really knows all that much.

He made a lot of money during his career, after the crash, and then, according to him, he sold a business worth $11 million and went into full-time ministry. A little while back, he posted a video asking people to give him $200,000 for a down payment on a piece of land for an off-the-grid Christian pre-tribulation compound.

I had questions.

If he amassed that much wealth, how could he find himself unable to make a down payment on a piece of land? Why would he borrow? The Bible says the borrower is the servant of the lender. It says the righteous will lend and not borrow. Okay, maybe God told him to spend his money on ministry and charity, so maybe the money is gone, but since when does God tell people to beg or borrow? The word says, “Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread.” If God is really behind this project, I would expect him to provide enough to buy the land outright.

Why would this man go live in the wilderness? I live on a farm, and I want to stay in the country so leftist mobs don’t find me a convenient prey, but I’m not planning to build an apocalypse bunker a hundred miles from humanity and stock it with dried food. I don’t expect to remain on Earth long enough to make that kind of investment necessary, and if I ran off to the woods and hid, how would I be useful to the people God put me here to reach? Carnal millionaires are building weird shelters in remote areas, as rats and gophers would do if they could prepare for disasters. It’s selfish, holing up with a few Christians and hiding food from everyone else while the world disintegrates. It doesn’t sound like something God would tell Christians to do.

The Bible says, “He who loves his life will lose it.” We are not supposed to hold onto this life too hard.

His resurrection story seems convincing to me, but I don’t think he received all the answers. Maybe I’m wrong.

If God spoke to the lady with the heart problem, it doesn’t necessarily mean he corrected all her errors.

Jesus visited me twice, but I can’t stand on those experiences and tell people I should be pope. What I learned was extremely important, but I learned very little. Most of what I know was imparted to me much later, after I was given a strong habit of prayer in tongues.

There are people who say they’ve died and returned, who say they have important instructions from Jesus, yet they don’t mention prayer in tongues, which is incredibly important. I know for a fact that it is essential, but these people do not, and they say they spoke to Jesus. I don’t think he told them everything. Mankind has a responsibility to educate itself, and Jesus will let us remain ignorant even if he visits us.

I’ve seen testimonies from people who were injured badly, lost consciousness, and spoke to Jesus. Some say he told them they would eventually heal, without saying he healed them with miraculous speed. Some of them went through very long periods of healing that didn’t bring total restoration.

That doesn’t make sense to me. If Jesus came to your hospital room in the flesh, he would heal you extremely quickly. There is no doubt of that. He never gave anyone a partial or slow healing in the Bible. I think the people who took a long time to heal, or who didn’t heal completely, must not have had enough faith and knowledge to get it done, or maybe they had things of which they needed to repent. I assume they didn’t make up their encounters.

There is a real tendency for people who have had encounters with God to think they know everything. It’s just not true. They may also try to convince others what happened to them is the best outcome possible when it is not.

It’s very important to learn. John made it clear we are to learn from the Holy Spirit. The Bible is very useful, but translations are never unambiguous, any more than the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek were. Anyone can read diligently and still be wrong. You have to pray in tongues and ask for revelation and wisdom.

If you know what you should do to get knowledge, and you don’t do it, God will probably let you flounder in ignorance until you die.

Rhodah and I prayed for the man who makes the videos, as well as the lady he talked about. I hope things get better and better for them.