: Joy Ryan
: Speak to the Fire What to believe in a messed up world
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: 9781098328009
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: English
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I was inspired to write this book when God began to do things directly in response to my questioning Him. All of a sudden, it seems like he showed up. And then all of a sudden, He shined the light down the history of my past and pulled the ripcord, bringing it all together, showing me the places where He has been there the whole time! My hope is that He will do this for you, and you will also see where He has actually been walking with you, even though you may not have known it. My hope also is that you will 'Speak to the Fire' in your own life and understand that you have the power to change things, with even a tiny bit of faith in our creator. Speak to that problem that has been haunting you! Speak truth to it, and forgive yourself! No matter what walk of life you are-married, single, LBGT, parents or not-no matter where you are on your path in that walk or what religious label you carry-Christian, Mormon, Agnostic, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, even Atheist-this will inspire you to start OR to keep talking to God, that fire within you! There's a lot of uncertainty and a lot of division in our country these days. So much hate, so much prejudice, so much fighting. So many things done claiming to be 'in the name of God' that just don't sit well with me. The word Christian doesn't sound right to me anymore either. It has been distorted and twisted and used for political reasons. The church itself has been corrupted in many ways. But God, Christ, Jesus...They all still live and speak to each one of us, if we will quiet our minds enough to listen. I even recall that, when I was single, I didn't put the label 'Christian' on the dating websites but opted instead for the 'spiritual but not religious' category. I dated Jewish, Muslim, Agnostic, Mormon, Catholic, pretty much anybody that I was attracted to. Each step of the way, I knew that God would lead me to the right person and that my steadfast belief in Him would not be shaken. Unequally yoked? I can hear you...

Chapter2

This Is How I Fight MyBattles

It’s silly for an adult to be afraid of monsters in the dark. Or is it? What do you do when some horrific image keeps tormenting you, especially in thenight?

There was a news story that quickly got my attention because of the horrifically demonic and hypnotic image that would suck you in so that you couldn’t look away. It wasn’t of the devil as we know it, but this was evil and was directed at children. I won’t describe it to you because I don’t want to put the image in your mind, but rather will describe whathappened.

This news story went on to say that the image would lure children because of the graphic nature of this monstrous thing, and it would talk to them, giving them commands to do themselves and others harm, followed with threats if they didn’t comply. This was spliced into some of the most popular toddler and young children cartoon videos that are in heavy circulation. It was pure evil, embedded so as not to be detected by an adult unless they watched the wholeprogram.

I was horrified! I went to my five-year-old daughter and had to know if she’d ever seen it. I quickly showed her the image and asked if she’d ever seen it in her cartoons before, and she said YES! She’d seen it a long time ago. I asked her what she did about it. She said she scrolled on by because it was creepy. I agreed with her and boy was I angry at the evil and the folks who were behind this nastytrick.

I began alerting my other mom friends and the kids daycare where my daughter attended regularly. I had opened the image several times to convey my distress and warn the others, not knowing that my daughter kept seeing it, too, and was becoming upset at my distress aboutit.

Later that night, my daughter was deeply upset and afraid of the image and was having a hard time getting to sleep. I have to admit to you that I was, too. Not out of fear of monsters, but angry that she’d been exposed to this demonic thing. I understood what it was and its motives. And mad at myself for possibly overreacting and causing herworry.

I thought back about my own mother who was a pastor, and how she helped me, when I was about seven years old, to break free of this horrible little green demon that kept haunting me and telling me not to eat. This was something that came to my mind, not by way of TV or radio, but in the spirit realm I honestly believe. And here’swhy.

To the spirit vs. physical realm, if you will for a moment…. You can all try this yourselves, and then thatah-ha moment will hit you. We are all given free will by our Creator. This means not only what we do but what we think about. There are plenty of other positive and self-help books discussing this very thing and how itworks.

We can all agree that we are a living spirit ourselves, living in a flesh body. When we die, our spirit leaves our body and goes to Heaven, hopefully. Right? God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are all spirits, too. Right? And we’ve all heard of haunted houses and ghosts. And have you ever wondered how Hollywood movies get those horrible images of demons, ghosts, goblins, etc., for their films? Because they arenot a “figment of our imagination,” but rather a manifestation of the evil spirits thatdo exist and present themselves to those willing to see. Yes, creepy but not crazy. Next, how to fix this forgood.

Drugs or no drugs, we are influenced, whether we like it or not (or even understand it or not), by positive and negative forces all day long. Remember the images of the angel on one shoulder and devil on the other? We have a mind to think thoughts at will; but, also, the mind is directed by unseen forces. Images of ideas and sounds of songs, etc., pop into and out of our heads all day and all night by way of dreams. Test it and try this yourself for a while by putting on some music and see how it makes you feel. What message, positive