'Satan - I will cause anxiety, fear and panic;
I will shut down business, schools, places of worship and sports events.
I will cause economic turmoil'
Jesus - I will bring together neighbours,
I will restore the family unit, and bring dinner
back to the kitchen tables.
I will help people slow down their lives
and appreciate what really matters.
I will teach my children to rely on Me, and not on the world.
I will teach my children to trust me,
and not on their money and material resources'
WHEN I read it I did not remember it from my own knowledge of the Book cited. In Screwtape Letters the content is based entirely on an imaginary dialogue between junior and senior demons. I did not recall Satan talking with Jesus. Also it seemed too tailor made for NOW, rather than 1942,when it was supposed to have been written.
WELL, on looking up the matter, I have discovered that the Extract IS a fraud; it was not taken from Screwtape letters, or any other book Lewis wrote. This is affirmed by REUTERS and a number of other sources. Reuters states that this 'extract' can be traced back to Facebook post made on 12th March 2020 by a U.S. woman names Heidi May. Reuters also states that on being interviewed, Heidi May told them that she had been feeling overwhelmed (with life). adding 'Jesus spoke these words to my heart. Well Hiedi May I am sorry you needed to get C.S. Lewis to falsely add words to those you believed had been given you by the Holy Spirit. I can and do forgive you, since if these words have come from God's Holy Spirit they are worth much more than if they had come from any OTHER source. I for one can believe Satan is behind everything that is happening right now in our world.
AND I can believe that JESUS will use it all for the good of ALL, and especially for all those who BELIEVE in HIS WORD.
Randy Green ( not a relative of mine ) writing for Peace Officers International, attributes these same words as mentioned above, to have originated from a Catholic Priest named Jerome Zeiler. Randy uses them to preface his own comment - "God is working to revive His people and restore their first love. He is leading us to repentance. He is teaching us to pray without ceasing, and to trust Him for every need we have. He is refining our faith and teaching us to love our neighbour as ourselves. He is reaching out to those who are in darkness and inviting them to come into His Light, and into His Kingdom. God said in Isaiah 50 '...let the one who walks in the dark who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and rely on their God'
Whatever you are facing you can say with Isaiah 'Because the sovereign Lord helps me I will not be disgraced. Therefore, I have set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame.........' Isaiah50v7. God will never forsake you or abandon you, He is with us, and watching over us.
Thank you Randy - you, as a Police Office, you need all our prayers, as do all those who stand with you in these times of very real human turmoil. God Bless you all, wherever you are serving. You may not all be Believers, but there is no doubt God loves you, and wants you to know and rejoice in that Love, and to believe He wants you to LIVE and not die.
COVID 19 IN KENYA TODAY
The latest figures to hand for 23rd October 2020
TOTAL TESTED SO FAR - 646,367 found POSITIVE 47,843
Those Recovered 33,422
Those deceased 884
Current Cases being treated ................................................ 13,537
Current approximate population..........................................50,000,000
As on 23rd October 631 positive Cases confirmed out of 6,142 tested
and included in the previous figures as above.
There has been alarm because daily confirmed cases are seeming to rise.
However the daily Cases TESTED also had risen, and it is not noticed that the INCREASE in actual confirmed Cases has increased against the percentage tested.
The CHINESE are reported to be treating confirmed cases almost the same as common ;FLU!!?
AND it seems very successful and allows life to go on almost normally. AND China's economy is booming. So who is panicking - and WHY. What is in REAL danger World Population, or World Economy ? Are we afraid of a VIRUS when we should be seeking the real Enemy.
In 2014 the Government declared that all Children's Homes would be closed by 2020. There followed much discussion, and eventually we were told that WE would be among a few to remain OPEN.
THIS WEEK, Daryl was called to a Government Meeting in town and advised that we had better soon decide what to do with our Homes since they would soon be closed and our children dispersed by fostering or adoption. Will there be no end to threats and innuendo by a thankless Government who lacks any real concern for the true welfare of its children. WELL, in the middle of so much social upheaval and anxiety, we felt unable to take this latest encouragement very seriously, and we are going on as we always have - trusting in the Love and Care of God. He is the one who really CARES, and who has ever held us together in His Arms. And WHO IS ABLE to take us all out of His Hands.
BUT SCHOOL IS STILL OPEN......with a lot of uncertainties. The two Primary Grades, and ONE High School grades have now been open for two weeks, and students have settled very well, and with a lot of joy and gladness. No one has shown even a symptom of C. 19.
BUT - what about the rest of the Classes? They were said to be opening on the 26th October, but this has now been cancelled. Some are now saying the first week of November......All is up in the air, and everyone in a state of uncertainty.
We are supposing that the Classes already going on WILL continue - two of the (Primary 8 and Form 4) being National Examination Classes. We are acting as if the rest will rejoin us ANY time. And we hope C.19 will not panic the Government into backing away from ensuring Schools OPEN, and our children are not denied the chance to go on with their Education. LOTSs to pray about.! We also are praying for all of YOU! Our Enemy is not likely to spare us from personal directs attacks upon our lives just because we are suffering the effects of a Pandemic. To pile more and more upon us is his delight and enjoyment, but the LORD is our Strength, and our Strong Tower, and none of his arrows will mortally wound or even reach us as we lift up the NAME of JESUS our Shield and Defender.
God be with you all. Do not be persuaded the Winter will be DARKER and more ARDUOUS than ever before. Do not be pressured into FEAR, panic and anxiety. SATAN would blind your eyes and deafen your ears to the Truth - JESUS SAVES, do not FORGET it. He is our LIGHT and our Salvation, and HE can and will turn all the darkness into DAY. BELIEVE and TRUST in this. For all that the WORLD is telling us, and all the statistics, and evidences they are confronting us with about C.19, there is something (to me at least) curiously unreal and theatrical in what is taking place. AND NO I do not mean to put aside the very real sorrow and pain seen and experienced by those who have died from C.19. We cannot deny or make light of their deaths. BUT, on the other hand have we been greived by all those others who have died of countless other diseases, ,maladies and accidents,even that daily pass away. Publicity and the Media, and maybe even other forces could have put everything out of perspective, frightened us all out of our usual sanity and common sense. We should take care. The Man of Sin may well be WITH us in the world NOW. When He comes the Bible says he will DECIEVE, MANIPULATE and make us all believe a LIE.
Our love to you in the FIGHT. We shall all come through. NOTHING will stop us in HIS Name.
John, Esther and Daryl Green, and all here in Testimony Faith Homes & School
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