Underestimating That Winter

 If you are going to read this, please read it all. It is a very explosive topic to many and I have attempted to cover the issue in fairness but yet in the truth. To those who are offended, I am truly sorry that is so. To those Christians who may find themselves "cheering me on" at first, you may really be the ones who need to read it to the end...

25 years ago, a brother visiting us said something to me related to our new life in "America" but when he said it, I immediately had a rather strong recognition of something prophetic being spoken out at the same time about something that was to come. 

He said, "Don't underestimate that winter (that is coming)."

There is something I have been noticing on no less than a massive scale here in the USA. It is the combination of sexual immorality and a growing (at present verbally) violent and aggressive defense of it. Coupled also with that trend inseparably, the growing ridicule of christianity has been turning into utter disgust and outright aggressive expressions of hatred.
 
This is a "spirit filled" movement and it has it's own "evangelists" many of whom have a surprising level of "spiritual empowerment" to "convert" people to their ideals. When talking to these very influential individuals, there is a strong sense of accompanying "spirit" in them. I can easily see how someone unprotected by the blood of Jesus and the indwelling of God's Spirit could easily be swayed by anything they say.
 

What we are seeing  in part is the growing resentment to the restraint of the Holy Spirit holding back evil perceived as good...

Hidden behind this "gay marriage" movement is a spirit so sinister that we cannot even imagine the depth of it's evil. Once someone allows a spirit like that to convince them of something evil that they now perceive as good, that person, not realizing, forfeits the right to object, or possibly even recognize, anything else that spirit may have in mind to accomplish. The deception of evil being good automatically opens the door to the deception that good is evil. It is the greatest irony that people, in demanding "gay rights" for others are bordering on forfeiting all their own rights of moral determination (free will) to a spirit who could care less about what happens to homosexuals or anybody else. It is only using them until it accomplishes what it has set out to do in the wider population. I strongly suspect and sorrowfully so, that when this spirit is done manipulating this "homosexual agenda" for it's purposes it will turn on them in some horribly devastating way cutting off any avenue of escape for them. That time is coming soon.



Right now we are only seeing a certain outward deception in particular ways, a certain engineered conflict, but when, in the nature of this spirit's deception and rebellion against God, it thinks it has full control, it will reveal it's true nature. It's not going to be very pretty for anybody...

"Satan comes but to steal, kill and destroy. I am come that you may have life and life more abundantly." 
"If any man comes to me (with a humble convicted heart) in no ways will I cast him out" - Jesus
 
As to that which is called christianity here in the West, on the other side of this conflict but being drawn by the same forces into the same trap, we would do well to not only read the Book but also consult with the Author who inspired His scribes to write it. There are too many "voices" out there getting into shouting matches, most of them not even remotely qualified to address the issue much less the spirit behind it. Those who are doing so are only being used (tripped up by that spirit) to pour gasoline on the fire right now. Stop listening to your favorite talk show hosts and and being manipulated by political parties and do what God says to do and "come out and be separate". Seek the Lord while He may be found for the hour comes when darkness will cover the earth. The one thing I will say about this is that if you really want a powerful spiritual weapon against any agenda, choose to do what God does and view each person on earth as an individual person who is of tremendous value to Him. Someone Jesus paid for with His own blood. Not just a cog in the wheel of something you know to be evil.

Now if you want to know what that winter that we went through was like (and one we were anything but prepared for), near the end of that winter, it started warming up, unusually so, up to 70 in the daytime and 45 at night. Two days later, It dropped down to -25 F after snowing 6 inches the night before. It never got above 0 degrees F for 3 weeks. The road we lived on was virtually impassable. It was the most brutal winter I have ever been through in 25 years of living here. We were in no ways prepared for it nor the cabin we lived in. I thought we were prepared. I thought we were safe. I was wrong. If it wasn't for an elderly christian couple down the road who took us under their wing, it's very possible that we would have died. To my Christian friends, if you really want to be used of God to destroy the works of the enemy... Love your neighbors... All of them... Individually...

Prayer: Nursing Student - Uganda

REQUEST FOR CONSIDERATION AND PRAYER
(PLEASE pass this on to friends and lists)

I'd like to (No I NEED to) request prayer and consideration of the nursing school needs for this young christian lady in Uganda. At this point it is a desperate need. Her nursing school term started on Feb. 10th, 2014. She has not been able to start because she lacks the funds to do so. Luthy Monica has struggled in faith for over a year now to attend nurses training at Jinja School of Nursing and Midwifery in Jinja, Uganda. She has run the race so far with all she has. She needs help and prayer to run this race to the finish line.

Unlike the rest of the students in her nursing school who come from affluent families, Luthy and her two younger brothers are orphans. She is attempting and has been walking in something for a while that is virtually impossible for someone in her circumstances without the prayers and help of others.

I just got finished "chatting" with her online... sad yet hopeful...

Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

I wonder how many lives will be saved from disease during the lifetime of just one nurse in Uganda...

If you can help with this need please contact me via facebook or email: paulrapoza@yahoo.com There is also a page I maintain for Luthy on my blog here that has a donation button specifically for her: 
Nursing: Luthy Monica
You can also see pictures there of her and "family"...

Below is a brief summary of the needs:

$400.00 Tuition and Fees
$100.00 Domestic expenses
$100.00+ for her brothers' schooling needs

God bless you for reading, sharing and caring...
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Dream - The Coming Storm

Today, I found myself needing a rest in my heart and mind from things so I lay down on the couch for a "few minutes" and found myself in a state where I was neither awake or asleep. I had this very long dream unfold where I was trying to get into someone else's basement because I was aware that a "tornado" was coming because the sky had gotten very dark and ominous. Apparently the house had been abandoned because I got into the house very easily.

While I was pounding on the door of that basement to get to safety, I discerned that there was somebody down there but they wouldn't respond or let me in. I forced my way in and found I had interrupted a man who had kidnapped an older middle aged Asian woman and was attempting to rape her in that basement. Just as I was about to intervene, the storm and it's destruction came and I quickly pulled the woman into a small space in the basement for safety. The only thing I was aware of was the darkness, the incredibly loud noise of houses being destroyed and the sense of the fearful power of that storm.... When the storm seemed to have passed and we went out from that small space, the man had been pierced through with debris and was dead. The entire house had been destroyed.

We went out and saw devastation everywhere for miles and miles as we walked to find an area that was not devastated. Most of the dream (over an hour) was walking and seeing endless miles and miles of the devastation. If it was a "tornado," it was like no tornado on earth...

While we were walking, it became apparent that those who had survived the storm, (and there didn't seem to be many) had become desperate in their quest to survive to the point where they were acting like packs of animals. They were roaming about in the miles of devastation raping, murdering and stealing at will. Even from each other. They seemed to bear the same character as the man in the basement. Even though they were committing evil, they had no sense of remorse. It was like they expected their victims to submit to their evil as though they were somehow justified in what they were doing.

The woman had apparently suffered some kind of trauma earlier in her life and she could not speak as a result of that trauma. That is also why she could not call out when I was banging at the door of that basement in the beginning. Even though she had suffered trauma earlier in life, which I suspected was rape, she had an abiding air of purity to her and I had a deep sense that I needed to be her protector and reassure her of the purity of my intentions to do so.

Apparently we were walking to the place where the woman lived and when we finally got there, to my surprise, the house was completely intact. I asked her, "This is your home?" and she lowered her head like someone in shame. Discerning the situation, I then said to her, "You are a slave in this house?" She nodded yes. She had been a slave in that house all her life... It didn't seem like anybody was there but she insisted upon staying there despite the danger of the roving gangs finding her so I reluctantly went off to find my children...

Then I slid out of the dream completely rested and in a wonderful sense of peace. Ironically(?) my facebook news-feed was still on and when I went to the computer, there was a short post from an acquaintance who mentioned that he was having spiritual dreams of a very destructive tsunami... The thought went through my mind and heart, "Pay Attention!"

Several hours later, I had some insights come to me even though I wasn't especially looking for it.

• That the massive destructive storm was financial in nature and more devastating than anyone can even conceive of.
• The Asian woman was those people who live in a communist dominated Asian country (or countries) that had (have) suffered greatly during the communist takeover of their country and had been made to be silent and serve the communist agenda that has ruled their country all these years.
• Her purity is found in the believers in the Lord Jesus (the church) among them that has been purified through the fires of suffering and persecution.
• The rapist was trying to gain control of her and get her to submit to what he wanted from her.
• His terrible death was the judgement of God.
• Both the rapist and the gangs of  lawless men are those who control the finances of the world through their wealth and power, so much so that some of them survive the financial destruction of the "storm."
• Their self-serving nature will no longer be subject to any form of conscience towards others.