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Bob Neumann, 7.3.2001
Dear Steve, i hope this gets through….the last three times i tried to post to the WPA it did not go through, the long messages i wrote “vanished” and my pc crashed. but that has happened everytime i have tried to post out..… and rebooting 2-3 times a day is a pain…
A week ago i shared this anecdote with Edith by phone with intent to share with you. it is easier to talk than to write.…
Two days after we got to Asheville i had a real funny introduction with this Jabez thing. when people first told me about this “book” they said it was for the “wealth of the wicked to send their wealth to the church”. The first time i heard this rationalization i shook my head. after over 15 same declarations i got worried and asked ABBA….HE SAID “WATCH AND WAIT”.… so i did not go out and buy this new “christian self-help book”. Well at least it has a quasi-spiritual aspect.
Let me explain that only 70+ days ago we quit our jobs. 60+ days ago sold our house. Exactly 14 days ago we arrived in Ashevile.
Two things i noticed…the huge amount of birds all around, and the largest bunches of flowers up and down the streets and highways….most of which are “lilies”.
A funny thing happened as i entered Asheville….a car passed me and slammed it’s brakes. i’m glad the speed limit was only 35mph because i came inches from rearending the “idiot”. But what caught my attention was a red bumper sticker with white lettering that boldly declaired…..…
WE STILL PRAY!
As the traffic backed up behind us…and please understand there was no stop sign…no traffic light… not an intersection even…the “idiot” just rammed to a stop and after about 45+ seconds roared away.
They only thing i could think was i was supposed to hit him/her/it.…
So as i started off again i asked a simple question… “what just happened?”. the answer was weird….THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT asked me “TO WHOM DO THEY PRAY?”
I had no answer…i could assume THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, and JACOB. Buy said driver could be a Moslem, a Hindu, a Buddhist, use your imagination..…
What i got was another question “HOW DO THEY PRAY?” Now that carried a whole different can of worms. At least JESUS said to not pray as the heathen do. So i thought about how “christians” pray. Again if you take JESUS seriously….most christians don’t pray like heathen….they pray nice and loud…often in King Jamesesse….like the “hypocrites”. To me you pray as THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT directs..… or in utter pain and desperation…”OUT OF THE DEPTHS”. Personally i take GOD seriously about “reasoning together”,,,,it is a good time for intercession and supplication.
Since comming to town i have seen a whole lot of these bumper stickers….still have no clue…maybe it is a “right-wing” conspiracy for prayer in school?
THE DAY AFTER arriving we went looking around and found malls…and a book store called Books-a-Million. Never saw one before and we went in..…
Just as i came trough the door there was a HUGE crimson banner hanging from the ceiling with GOLD LETTERS that read “HARRY POTTER”. and i thought…asheville=city of darkness….Harry should be popular here….personally i have nothing against old Harry, but lots of “christians” do. I wonder why they haven’t screeched about Bilbo Baggins and Gandolf. Or Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Mary Poppins, and all of those other “practitioners” of the craft.…
Well i had to walk under the banner to check out the rest of the store….but i did not get far….because the display under ol’ Harry was “THE BOOK OF JABEZ”……….… now i had to laugh….as i picked up a copy i heard in my spirit “WITCHCRAFT of THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL”. As i looked at the $9.99 price tag on this tiny 85+ page large print thing i heard MY MASTER SAY…”IF THEY JUST SOUGHT MY KINGDOM FIRST AND FORMOST”.…
I put the book back because i was living according to HIS WORDS. I/we left a $100,000 joint income….have not received a paycheck in 2 months. We came to asheville under intense attack with no jobs available for the moment. What good is repeating a 2 verse “give me, give me” prayer for 30 consecutive days when THE LAMB HIMSELF said “DO NOT PRAY IN VAIN REPETITIONS”.
If i am not walking in obedience what good is any prayer?
Except for one of contrition and repentance.…
For 12 days we have gone back and forth….looking for a job…at least for me. In this time i see the birds of the air and the lilies of the field….if ABBA does not love me as much as them, then i will need to worry. But i hear the songs every morning and i see vivid living color every mile i traveled…and i remember HIS WORDS from long ago that HE REPEATS SO OFTEN…..”EVERYTHING IF GOING TO BE OKAY”.…
Yesterday i did the paperwork for a fulltime job that starts monday.… i also landed a part time job 4 hours later…ABBA has provided….HE HAS BLESSED.…
I won’t judge this whole Jabez fad….don’t need to. My ABBA told me all about it in HIS WAY.…
Anybody who have gone the 30-60-90 day ritual and won the lottery the next week.… please give us a praise report….supposedly millions of people have bought the book.… thousands of preachers have joined the ranks….so someone out there has had to win / receive the “big enchalada”…… and if any have…i have now 12 days till my next/first paycheck…..etc…etc…
shabbat shalom ya’ll
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