Apply This Now

"In every country where man is free to think and to speak, differences of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently and leaving our horizon more bright and serene." Thomas Jefferson

Apply this to the Lakeland Florida miraculous.  Note, that the freedom to speak out, inquire, voice personal opinion, vote, are freedoms which blood was shed to procure.  Freedom of choice - and responsibility for our choice - is G_d's way.  We are not raped.  We are given information. We are not forced.  We can choose the light or the darkness, but which one we choose will impact our own, and other's fate.  I have so often felt such thankfulness that I was born in the United States of America, rather than anywhere else on earth, and rather than in any other era.  As a born-again female, raised by a male, I feel free.  I, regardless of the cost, throw off bondage like the incredible hulk would.  I burst the cords asunder when anything becomes prison-like.  The only bonds I want around my soul and my body are those I choose; namely, marriage to Jesus, and my new, self-chosen, earthly family which I get to choose, and my animal babies, and my country. When Satanail and his lovers start putting a strangle-hold on me, no matter where it comes from, I begin to plot what wrestling hold I will use to bust them off me.  I will change the oil in my car's engine so I can remove myself from their midst. I will prepare my white sails on my clipper ship which will float me away from filth and sin.  I will alert the media that I intend to vanquish the foe. Put it any way you like, but I cannot be imprisoned for very long.  Something has got to give, and if it's between me and Satan, guess what? When I was a little girl I was always the smallest kid in any group; school, home, the playground, it did not matter.  I was half the size of everybody else physically, but that is where my size stopped.  I had the "fight" in me.  I have spent a lifetime modifying the fight, and channelling it for Kingdom purposes, and work daily on continuance of that.  Don't bother telling me to chill out.  That's for the couch 'taters. When I was a tiny kid, though, I would start screaming like a screech owl, long before I got pummeled, such that somebody would be coming my way to bail me out, and I would only have to get in the first couple of punches.  My relatives said, you sure were an irritating little so and so. I said better me than you!  So, do like I did when I was a kid.  When you feel you may need Heavenly Help for a situation, start screaming out for G_d.  He wants to save us in the playground, in the homes, in the schools, in the Church's, and on the real battlefields.  He wants his kids to scream out for him, as we are weak, and He is strong.  Don't forget your place in his family.  When the world flushes you, He won't.  When the world lies, steals, cheats, and tries to murder you, He will be there to protect.  I thank Him today for my freedoms. I thank him, that as a woman, in other places, I would be getting raped, murdered, I would be looked down upon, maligned, forced into slavery, violated in any and every way possible, and perceived as less than a male. In my country, I have full and total opportunity for egalatarianism, and it is up to ME to ensure that in this country, that continues.  I will have to fight for it, in the physical and in the courts and in society.  Satan wishes to enslave everybody somehow.  Jesus is the GREAT EQUALIZER.  The only way He looks down on me, his little, bitty wife, is that He is taller than me.  Hallelujah, have mercy! All glory to HIM! Carol